For very small projects (i.e. only a handful of users, no serious performance requirements), I typically use web.py (http://webpy.org http://webpy.org). It's ve

For very small projects (i.e. only a handful of users, no serious performance requirements), I typically use web.py (http://webpy.org http://webpy.org). It's very simple and offers only very basic functionality, but does a good job of staying out of the way and generally letting you do whatever you want. I've heard from friends that Pylons is also a good option, but I found it to be more complex than I really needed.