anti framework framework

I have been looking into web.py recently. web.py is a reasonably simplistic python web framework. It doesn't try to do too much, yet makes building sites easier than doing it by hand. The focus is giving you the tools and "getting out of your way".

One of my favorite aspect of it has to be the fact that you can run it standalone, as cgi, or as fcgi. Standalone is great for testing and development. The other feature that I really enjoy, is the fact that web.py is a single distributed file. You can add additional plugins, but the key is that the framework can easily be bundled along with your application. I find this very important for small to medium sized projects (and many larger ones).

The fcgi performance is reasonable. See this mailing list entry about some simple performance tests with web.py.

How does it stack up against Rails in general? I don't know yet....