Static site generation on python

Static sites are cool! I generate my blog with Tinkerer <a href="http://www.tinkerer.me" rel="nofollow">http://www.tinkerer.me</a> which is also Python and ReStructuredText based. Although Pelican seems to be more generic, while Tinkerer is mainly for blogs.

Probably should put what Pelican is on the homepage. It was weird having to go to the doc page to figure out what it actually was.

Does anyone have some experience with pelican (possibly liquidink) and rest2web?<p>There are many static website generators, but I'm looking into a python+ReST solution. I've been using rest2web a lot, and I really love it's simplicity compared to the other solutions. rest2web is really straightforward. In the end, it's the python-docutils module that does <i>most</i> of the work anyway, while rest2web simply collects the website structure.<p>The only downside is that rest2web lacks a bit of polish, and I really wished it would come with the ability to generate rss feeds for a particular tree or tag. I was thinking about writing a plugin, but I'm unsure.<p>pelican seem to be already be done for the purpose. Actually, pelican seem to target <i>mostly</i> blogs, while I actually just want "a feed of changes" for a particular directory tree. I don't want a blog-turned-into-a-website approach.<p>Does anybody had this problem? I'm really looking for feedback from people that used rest2web here and moved to pelican/liquidink, or back maybe. Figuring out the limitations of these tools require a long time investment and I cannot really decide by just trying it out on toy pages.

I tried pelican several times, but I always found it to be too complicated to what I want. I went through setup, generated some pages and when I started to tinker around with it I had a feeling it would be easier to write something from scratch.<p>Do you know any other static page generators, simpler and preferably in Python as well? Or should I just get over the first impression and go with the pelican?

I use Pelican on a couple of sites (like <a href="http://dylanfoundry.org/" rel="nofollow">http://dylanfoundry.org/</a>). One thing that I really like is that it is ReStructured Text, so most of the same things that I do with Sphinx for docs can carry over and the work that I've done with Pygments for syntax highlighting, still applies.<p>There's some room for improvement here and there, but it works pretty well and was easy to get going.

Definitely love pelican as well. I've generated <a href="http://mahmoudimus.com/blog" rel="nofollow">http://mahmoudimus.com/blog</a> with it and it's just fantastic.<p>Plus, I can use ReST -- a lot of the other static site generators just focus on Markdown. If you use python, ReST is your bread and butter.

Love Pelican. Found it to be simplest "blog aware" generator for Python I could find. Because it keeps maturing, there's a ton of stuff you can do with it. But simply propping it up and starting a site, was amazingly easy.<p>`pelican-quickstart` and you are up and running.

I am considering moving from Jekyll to Pelical just because is python.