Could you explain why you would use django over the others? Does pylons have too much magic? I've never used django and am curious if you have used the other frameworks.
I have only used Django, Rails, CakePHP and raw PHP.
Django has a superb ORM layer (beats Rails 10-0), where relations are really well implemented, as members of the model. Selects are easy, and can be chained (as filters). In Rails (even 2.0) I had to use find(:all, condition => <SQL fragment>. That is so not hiding the db layer.
Generally, there is much less to none auto-magic. This is a thing I quite disliked in Rails, both as a beginner and beyond. I like to keep most things explicit. I find it baffling that Rails is considered easy to understand. Due to the auro-magic, I found the learning curve pretty steep.
what about TurboGears? I like the idea of having a larger unifying framework based on smaller independent projects.
Btw, I should add that I'm asking from the perspective of somebody moving towards a Pythonic framework. I've spent the better part of today learning Python, and so far I love it!
I've used TurboGears around 2006 and moved away because it lacked pylons/django/weby like url dispatching, and I found it too hard/impossible to customize the widgets. Also, the main developers droped it in favor of pylons or something else, so, I thought it was pretty much the end of the project. I am suprised that it is still around.
