What are the other options against Zope?

[godwin]

Hi all,
      I wanna thank Martin for helping out with my ignorance concerning
execution of stored procedure with python. Now i have decided to write
a web app that googles into my companies proprietary database. I need
to know whether zope is good for that job. But even the introduction to
zope in the zope book was intimidating. Are there any simple options?
If so plz tell me how i can obtain it and study it. I should say that i
am new to web programming.
Thank you