I’ve been using SQLAlchemy for about two days now and I can tell you, it’s without compare. The ORM is the most flexible I’ve ever seen. It’s freaking magic.

I’ve been using Pylons for… two days now. I’m really impressed with it. The wiki demo is ~150 lines of code and ends with drag and drop page deletion.

I wrote a virtual machine for the ICFP 2006 programming contest in Ruby because it’s basically my native tongue (Python is the language we use at work) and was exceedingly disappointed in the performance. I’d be pretty shocked if Python turned out to outperform Ruby by a whole lot though, at least without magic like Psyco.

Ah, good to know! Thanks. What about sqlalchemy vs. sqlobject?

You can use Kid with Django if you really want to — a Django view function is just a plain Python function that does something and returns a response. If “does something” means “load a Kid template,” that’s perfectly fine. :)