Django - new web framework for Python
Another web framework for Python, this time with the bold name Django. I am skeptical about yet another web framework - there are already plenty, and I must admit that I have contributed to one or another - but this one offers some interesting approaches.
On the one hand, it addresses similar solutions like Ruby on Rails - but does not mention Ruby on Rails at all. That's already positive; lately, one almost gets the impression that Python programmers are panicking because of ROR and think that everything must only be oriented towards it.
On the other hand, Django offers automatically generated backend pages. This is something I really like and what I find so nice about Zope, for example - you immediately have a way to play with the actual data, even before the actual frontend is ready. Very practical, especially in the initial development phase.
Some of the other ideas are also quite funny - for example, the mapping of URLs to handlers in the Python code via regular expressions. Reminds a bit of mod_rewrite in Apache (where, with such solutions, the question of prioritization of overlapping regular expressions always remains). And an integrated object-relational manager is not bad either, even if you can of course just as well fall back on finished solutions there. And the fact that the developers have already thought about the need for efficient cache systems and then rely on memcached is also nice - many projects die at some point from the load, simply because caching was not thought of in time.
The template language, however, looks a bit unusual and somehow I wonder why there must be almost as many of them as there are web frameworks.