I love CherryPy because I like simple software. That it can hold it's own on benchmarks is icing on the cake. I admit that getting your head around configurati

I love CherryPy because I like simple software. That it can hold it's own on benchmarks is icing on the cake. I admit that getting your head around configuration for the first time is an hour or two of staring at documentation, but once you get past that you'll love how simple it is. Getting it running under Apache via mod_wsgi is also a refreshing breeze. Where Django is great for building websites, the beautiful transparency of CherryPy is excellent for building webservices (no cryptic errors). We're using CherryPy with Routes, CouchDB, couchdb-python, couchdb-lucene, and lxml for a web annotation project and we couldn't be happier.