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Background
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This version of the BFG wiki tutorial presents a :mod:`repoze.bfg`
application that uses technologies which will be familiar to someone
with :term:`Zope` experience.  It uses :term:`ZODB` as a persistence
mechanism and :term:`traversal` to map URLs to code.  It can also be
followed by people without any prior Python web framework experience.

To code along with this tutorial, the developer will need a UNIX
machine with development tools (Mac OS X with XCode, any Linux or BSD
variant, etc) *or* he will need a Windows system of any kind.

The tutorial makes mention of a CDROM disk.  This is due to the fact
that the tutorial is taught "live" under some circumstances.  When it
mentions use of a CD, there are alternate instructions which follow
for people who do not have the CD.

This tutorial is known to work under :mod:`repoze.bfg` version 0.9a7.

Have fun!