Last week I started in cooperation with my friend small personal investment tracking application project. It's still in designing stage, maybe I will write something about that later.
I decided to write basic functional prototype using python, having in mind that it can be production environment. Because it is going to be a web application I reviewed current python web frameworks.
There are interesting solutions like Django or Pylons, but I would prefer to use simple but flexible frameworks for that scale of project. So I decided to use web.py - simple framework made by creators of reddit.com.
Web.py has really simple skeleton connecting together http server, controller engine and built in but loosely coupled database module and template engine. It needs minimum configuration to run. In default mode it uses WSGI http server, with option to switch to fastcgi on apache or lighttpd. The same with other modules. You can use other full fledged db framework or better known templating engine. There are no fancy helpers and component support, but it's easy to include existing solutions.
It reminds me another web framework having similar attributes - java Maverick. It have more features, but the same spirit of simplicity.
If you are ready to use light web framework try one of these, or find something like that. Bigger and having more features not always means better.
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