I came across the Django project yesterday (which was also released yesterday) which looks to be a very cool framework for developing Python web apps. It’s certainly not the “same” as Ruby On Rails by any means (for instance, to me it looks like you actually design your database in code rather than feeding your app a database to auto discover), but offers what looks to be a competitive Python alternative to it. It also makes me happy that it’s preferred database platform is Postgres as it’s something I’ve been meaning to check-out for quite some time.

Though Python doesn’t quite have the buzz that Ruby does at the moment, its a soild, stable, robust language which was originally started in 1989, and is even used by quite an impressive list of companies such as Google.