OK well I'll give you my personal perspective. For learning python, python.org actually has a very good tutorial. Then there is also http://www.diveintopython.net/ which is excellent. For web frameworks I use cherrypy which is very minimal. Seeing as you want to learn, I'd recommend you start with that as you'll get a better overview of what's really going on in the guts of a web framework. Emacs is excellent but I switched to Eclipse for its subversion integration.