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.

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Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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 3

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 4

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

Answer 5

There is also Xworkflows ( https://github.com/rbarrois/xworkflows/ ) and it's pluggable to django with django-xworkflofws ( https://github.com/rbarrois/django_xworkflows )

Answer 6

Try GoFlow, a workflow engine for Django.