WebOb, Routes, SQLAlchemy, Mako. My favorite framework is no framework. The bottom line is that its a sliding scale. Django will give you a large amount of fun

WebOb, Routes, SQLAlchemy, Mako. My favorite framework is no framework. The bottom line is that its a sliding scale. Django will give you a large amount of functionality for free but requires that you do things the Django way. As you move along the scale towards projects like Werkzeug you'll inevitably lose some of the free stuff but you'll be able to make a lot more choices on how things work. You'll want to check Ian Bicking's blog for some good reading on the no-framework approach. [1] is a great place to start. [1] http://blog.ianbicking.org/2010/03/12/a-webob-app-example/ http://blog.ianbicking.org/2010/03/12/a-webob-app-example/