Framework for a beginner

[Roy Smith]

In article 
<c59fba7e-df71-4429-919b-cf34668fe703 at s10g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>,
 Bryan <bryanjugglercryptographer at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Django has emphasized backwards compatibility with the
> down-side that, last I heard, there was no plan to move to Python 3.

Hardly.  See https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2012/mar/13/py3k/

I agree that Django is probably what the OP should be looking at, for 
most of the reasons you mention.  The ecosystem/community which has 
grown up around Django is a major plus.

I've done a couple of projects in Django, ranging from a fairly simple 
site based on django-cms, to a REST API server with a MongoDB back end.  

This later site actually used very little of Django's capabilities.  I'm 
using the url routing, middleware framework, and session management, and 
that's about it.  No templates, no ORM (at least not the one that comes 
with Django).  But even with just using those small pieces, there was 
enough value in the scaffolding I got from Django to make it a good pick.