Does anyone know about workflow frameworks/libraries in Python?

Question

I'm searching for a workflow library/framework for Python. I'm astonished that there I cannot find anything which is simple and not attached to Zope/Plone.

Does anyone know of an open-source, simple workflow library/framework. It's preferred to support Django, but not required.

Answer 1

I know there is an openerp, but it's not workflow.....

Answer 2

Try GoFlow, a workflow engine for Django.

Answer 3

Besides GoFlow (linked in Oli's answer) the only other Django workflow I know of is part of the Pinax project.

More generally for Python based workflows there is spiff workflow and Dave Kuhlman's Workflow and REST How-to that could probably be converted from Quixote to Django.

Answer 4

Another workflow project that I saw recently was repoze.workflow, which is a state-machine based workflow engine which was inspired by plone, but is a clean re-implementation.

http://svn.repoze.org/repoze.workflow/trunk/docs/index.rst

Not exactly sure how production ready it really is, but I do know some people that are using it.

Answer 5

I used hurry.workflow: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hurry.workflow It has plenty of features but unfortunately has some zope dependecies so it may be not applicable for other frameworks.

Answer 6

ntoll's workflow for django is alpha, but is actively developed

Answer 7

repoze.workflow is cool but it's more a statemachine than really complete workflow solution...

Answer 8

Unfortunately it seems like most/all of the projects listed here are no longer active. Here's a new project which is currently ongoing:

http://packages.python.org/django-workflows/overview.html