You can run Django on PyPy, and it appears to be running reasonably well. By Django version 1.0 the current issues should have been resolved. 
For now you can get a project like Pinax from Django Hotclub up and running with a bit of extra work.

== Check out PyPy ==
{{{
svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/dist pypy-dist
}}}
This checks out a pypy package and a py package(has py.test and other neat Python code)
If you are using git to check out, check out the py repository separately or install py using easy_install.

PyPy runs on 
 * Windows 32bit
 * Mac OS X Intel and PPC
 * Linux 32bit and 64bit

== Build pypy-c ==
Don't try this on a weak machine. It must have at least 1Gb memory or it will do a lot of swapping. 2Gb is plenty.
Expect it to take 30-60 minutes
{{{
cd pypy/translator/goals
./translate.py --thread --gc=hybrid --batch targetpypystandalone --faassen --allworkingmodules --oldstyle
}}}
This will create a pypy-c executable in the current directory. The generated interpreter will use the modified
and standard Python libraries bundled with the PyPy source code if a runtime library is not already on the PYTHONPATH.


== Platform prerequisites ==

To compile PyPy you need a couple of developer tools. Essentially,
 * Python 2.5 or 2.4 with ctypes
 * C Compiler (gcc or equivalent)
 * C Libraries
 * libbz2-dev
 * zlib-dev
 * libffi
 * python-dev

=== For Mac ===

Install Developer Tools
Install MacPorts
Install python25 and libffi via MacPorts

And you should be good to go

	
== Check out Django ==

		Do a subversion checkout of django trunk. Or get version 1.0 that has the signals speedup (ticket 6814)
		Or if ticket 6814 is not in yet, apply patch ticket 6857 (http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6857)

	
Python 2.4

		Django only requires Python 2.3. But, be aware that many popular django applications depend on Python 2.5 runtime lib.

		* elementtree (from xml.etree import cElementTree as ElementTree)
		python-openid
		yadis
		gdata
		
		* hashlib
		python-openid
		gravatar
		
Make a link to pypy-c in /usr/shared/bin

{{{
pypy-c ./manage.py runserver --noreload
}}