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 2Background
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 4
 5This tutorial presents a :mod:`repoze.bfg` application that uses
 6technologies which will be familiar to someone with :term:`Pylons`
 7experience.  It uses :term:`SQLAlchemy` as a persistence mechanism and
 8:term:`url dispatch` to map URLs to code.  It can also be followed by
 9people without any prior Python web framework experience.
10
11To code along with this tutorial, the developer will need a UNIX
12machine with development tools (Mac OS X with XCode, any Linux or BSD
13variant, etc) *or* he will need a Windows system of any kind.
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15This tutorial is targeted at :mod:`repoze.bfg` version 1.2.
16
17Have fun!