.. _wiki2_background:

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Background
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This version of the :app:`Pyramid` wiki tutorial presents a
:app:`Pyramid` application that uses technologies which will be
familiar to someone with SQL database experience.  It uses
:term:`SQLAlchemy` as a persistence mechanism and :term:`URL dispatch` 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* a Windows system of any kind.

.. note::

  This tutorial runs on both Python 2 and 3 without modification.

Have fun!