* Ready to use modules like a forum, photo album, weblog, poll and a guestbook will save web developers work when creating a new website. Libraries for e-mail, pagination, HTTP requests, database management, images, cryptography and many more are also included. * Banshee is more of a hybrid, a framework with CMS functionality and ready-to-use modules. * An earlier version of Banshee has been audited by a Dutch IT security company. No issues were found.

* Routing: Requests to function-call mapping with support for clean and dynamic URLs. * Templates: Fast and pythonic built-in template engine and support for mako, jinja2 and cheetah templates. * Utilities: Convenient access to form data, file uploads, cookies, headers and other HTTP-related metadata. * Server: Built-in HTTP development server and support for paste, fapws3, bjoern, gae, cherrypy or any other WSGI capable HTTP server.