Python web frameworks

It appears discussing web frameworks is popular currently. It also appears GvR has decided he likes Django and hopes it will become sort of the default.

I've been looking at this Django and TurboGears things for a while unable to decide if I should move the website that I appear to be maintaining (which was originally written in PHP and is rather unmaintainable by now) to one of them. I'm not going to add my own comparison here, but I remember from last time I looked at them they both had points I liked and I disliked and I was left undecided. Point is this "blessing" of Django doesn't help me at all. Firstly it's only the personal decision of one person, it doesn't help that that person doesn't like XML so effectively didn't really consider TurboGears.

Today however I had the idea to see if any of the two had any pre-build packages that one can use, like PHP has for forums, photo galleries etc.[1]

I couldn't find a link on the TurboGears website, but using Google I immediately ended up at a part of turbogears.org that was exactly this: a collection of useful applications/widgets. It's called cogbin. I'm not quite sure how it got hidden so well on their site, maybe because there aren't too many available yet. But it's important to note that they integrated it with the Python Cheese Shop by using the trove classifiers. I can't explain how good I find that.

For Django I found nothing of like this. Not on their site and not using Google. Did I just miss it or are they just not as organised?

So maybe I'm tending towards TurboGears for the moment. Their approach also seems more modular which seems to fit more in with the UNIX philosophy in my oppinion. They're even talking about things like markup, SQLAlchemy and Routes. All very exciting things IMHO.

[1] Now we're at it it's maybe also a good time to define interfaces to interact between components like this. I'm thinking mainly about user authentication and creation (but I'm sure there is more). That's a different story though.