I feel your pain. I used to work on a project started out with Pylons. But we got to give credit to Pylons & Pyramids folks. Despite being the least "famous" (well everyone has a different scale) these days, they still manage to pull in a lot of good code. Pyramid is my goto if I want to roll out everything on myself (once you know how to use things like tween it's really fantastic). I still can't get my mind around principal though. :{

I should go back to Django again, I started out with 0.90 when I first learned about MVC with Python.