Porting a Legacy Pylons Application Piecemeal

You would like to move from Pylons 1.0 to Pyramid, but you're not going to be able manage a wholesale port any time soon. You're wondering if it would be practical to start using some parts of Pyramid within an existing Pylons project.

One idea is to use a Pyramid "NotFound view" which delegates to the existing Pylons application, and port piecemeal:

 1# ... obtain pylons WSGI application object ...
 2from mypylonsproject import thepylonsapp
 3
 4class LegacyView(object):
 5    def __init__(self, app):
 6        self.app = app
 7    def __call__(self, request):
 8        return request.get_response(self.app)
 9
10if __name__ == '__main__':
11   legacy_view = LegacyView(thepylonsapp)
12   config = Configurator()
13   config.add_view(context='pyramid.exceptions.NotFound', view=legacy_view)
14   # ... rest of config ...

At that point, whenever Pyramid cannot service a request because the URL doesn't match anything, it will invoke the Pylons application as a fallback, which will return things normally. At that point you can start moving logic incrementally into Pyramid from the Pylons application until you've ported everything.