I'll give my stock response when this question comes out: the reason why I chose Django back in the day (we are talking pre 1.0) was because it stuck with the P

I'll give my stock response when this question comes out: the reason why I chose Django back in the day (we are talking pre 1.0) was because it stuck with the Python philosophies of configuration-over-convention and "principle of least surprise". It made debugging issues much easier than in the equivalent Ruby on Rails project (I tried to build the same proof-of-concept using both frameworks.) When something broke in Django I could usually just follow the code to find what was wrong. With RoR sometimes I would put stuff in some place, expect the framework to pick it up (convention-over-configuration) and the code wouldn't work. Much head scratching ensued.