Over the last two months I've spent a lot of time working on improvements to peewee, a lightweight ORM written in python.

Some of these features are present in Django and were added for better parity, some I found a need for while working on other projects, and others were requested by opening an issue on GitHub or bringing it up on IRC (#peewee on freenode). If you're interested in trying peewee out, it ships with an example app which is described here.

Here's a rundown on what has been added recently:

• atomic updates
• select related models
• basic transaction support

Recently I stumbled across the twitter bootstrap project, which is a set of cross-browser compliant stylesheets and scripts. I liked them so much that I've ported the admin templates to use bootstrap. Here's a little screenshot of the design refresh taken from the example app:

http://media.charlesleifer.com/images/photos/flask-peewee-admin.jpg

I hope this will make the admin easier to work with in the long-run!

I'd like to write a post about a project I've been working on for the past month or so. I've had a great time working on it and am excited to start putting it to use. The project is called flask-peewee -- it is a set of utilities that bridges the python microframework flask and the lightweight ORM peewee. It is packaged as a flask extension and comes with the following batteries included:

• Admin interface a-la django
• RESTful API toolkit a-la tastypie
• Authentication system

Over the past month I've been working on adding support for both MySQL and PostgreSQL to peewee. I'm happy to say that after a couple weekend hack sessions all tests are now passing.

I'm pleased to announce that I've added support for MySQL to peewee. All tests are now passing. In the process I uncovered a few small bugs which have also been fixed.

I also added some new reference documentation which describes succinctly how to do basic configuration and querying with peewee.

For the past month or so I've been working on writing my own ORM in Python. The project grew out of a need for a lightweight persistence layer for use in Flask web apps. As I've grown so familiar with the Django ORM over the past year, many of the ideas in Peewee are analagous to the concepts in Django. My goal from the beginning has been to keep the implementation simple without sacrificing functionality, and to ultimately create something hackable that others might be able to read and contribute to.