Zope is an open source application server written in the Python programming language. It features a transactional object database (ZODB) which can store not only content and custom data, but also dynamic HTML templates, scripts, a search engine, and relational database (RDBMS) connections and code. It features a strong through-the-web development model, allowing you to update your web site from anywhere made possible by a tightly integrated security model.

It features a transactional object database ( zodb) which can store not only content and custom data, but also dynamic HTML templates, scripts, a search engine, and relational database (RDBMS) connections and code.

It features a strong through-the-web development model, allowing you to update your web site from anywhere made possible by a tightly integrated security model.

Zope has been around for a long time; it saw it's first release in 1998. It was long regarded as the "killer app" of python, and many ideas and libraries that are now part of the Python core stem from Zope.