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Could you add webapp2 (or GAE dev support) and tornado support?

Thanks much.

Hi there,

We're very happy to support people who are developing for deployment via GAE - we'll look into adding webapp and webapp2 to our standard "batteries included" as soon as we can.

In the meantime, you can install them into your own account, using

pip-2.6 install --user webapp2
pip-2.7 install --user webapp2

On tornado, we do have the package available, but currently we only support apps that work via WSGI - so, for most tornado use cases which require arbitrary socket connections, you can't currently deploy them via PythonAnywhere (although you could conceivably develop them here).a

Supporting non-WSGI webapps is definitely on our to-do list, I'll upvote the ticket on your behalf...

What about Tornado WSGI support? (for example, http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/wsgi.html)

Sure. Looks like that should work. You'd just need to set up you wsgi file to export a variable called application that is an instance of tornado.wsgi.WSGIApplication.

I ask you to add Tornado to the list of standard frameworks for deploying web applications on the PythonAnywhere service, so that after creating a project on Tornado, a wsgi file will be created automatically in the same way as is done when choosing Flask or Django.

Thanks for the suggestion!