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diff --git a/docs/narr/introduction.rst b/docs/narr/introduction.rst index b35c61720..f9c25c69c 100644 --- a/docs/narr/introduction.rst +++ b/docs/narr/introduction.rst @@ -52,9 +52,7 @@ Documentation Speed :app:`Pyramid` is designed to provide noticeably fast execution for common - tasks such as templating and simple response generation. Although "hardware - is cheap", the limits of this approach become painfully evident when one - finds him or herself responsible for managing a great many machines. + tasks such as templating and simple response generation. Reliability :app:`Pyramid` is developed conservatively and tested exhaustively. Where @@ -101,7 +99,7 @@ frameworks for small and large applications is just false; a well-designed framework should be able to be good at both. Pyramid strives to be that kind of framework. -To this end, Pyramid provides a set of features, that, combined, are unique +To this end, Pyramid provides a set of features that, combined, are unique amongst Python web frameworks. Lots of other frameworks contain some combination of these features; Pyramid of course actually stole many of them from those other frameworks. But Pyramid is the only one that has all of @@ -219,7 +217,6 @@ that the Pyramid core doesn't. Add-on packages already exist which let you easily send email, let you use the Jinja2 templating system, let you use XML-RPC or JSON-RPC, let you integrate with jQuery Mobile, etc. -Examples: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/docs/pyramid.html#pyramid-add-on-documentation Class-based and function-based views ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -475,7 +472,7 @@ per route. For example, you can create a route with the pattern ``/items`` and when the route is matched, you can shuffle off the request to one view if the request method is GET, another view if the request method is POST, etc. A system known as "view predicates" allows for this. Request method matching -is the very most basic thing you can do with a view predicate. You can also +is the most basic thing you can do with a view predicate. You can also associate views with other request parameters such as the elements in the query string, the Accept header, whether the request is an XHR request or not, and lots of other things. This feature allows you to keep your @@ -749,7 +746,7 @@ that we change Pyramid? You can extend Pyramid's :term:`Configurator` with your own directives. For example, let's say you find yourself calling :meth:`pyramid.config.Configurator.add_view` repetitively. Usually you can take the boring away by using existing shortcuts, but let's say that this is -a case such a way that no existing shortcut works to take the boring away: +a case where there is no such shortcut: .. code-block:: python :linenos: |