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BlackSheep is an asynchronous web framework to build event-based web applications with Python.

Black Sheep 

pip install blacksheep

BlackSheep offers...

  • A rich code API, based on dependency injection and inspired by Flask and ASP.NET Core.
  • A typing-friendly codebase, which enables a comfortable development experience thanks to hints when coding with IDEs.
  • Built-in generation of OpenAPI Documentation, supporting version 3, YAML, and JSON.
  • A cross-platform framework, using the most modern versions of Python.
  • Good performance.

Getting started

To get started with BlackSheep, read these tutorials:

Versions

The documentation here refers to the current version of the web framework. For the documentation of the first version of the framework, use the links below:

Version 1

The documentation of version 1 of the web framework is published at /blacksheep/v1/

Migrating from v1 to v2

Go to the summary of changes between version 1 and version 2 of the web framework.

Last modified on: 2025-04-22 08:29:25

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