+1 for Flask. It very much gets out of your way. Interestingly it still feels like you have it both ways (batteries included but loosely coupled) as the series

+1 for Flask. It very much gets out of your way. Interestingly it still feels like you have it both ways (batteries included but loosely coupled) as the series of extensions are high quality thin wrappers for good libraries - namely Babel, Fungiform and SQLAlchemy. For me this was a great introduction to these aforementioned libs.