In a keynote at the SciPy conference Aug. 17-18 in Pasadena, Calif., Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python language, proclaimed Django as the preferred Web framework for Python development.

The popular and well-regarded Django framework has been around since 2005. It is compatible with any 2.x Python from 2.4 onward, though 2.7 is recommended. The Django engineers are particularly ...

Django is a well-designed and mature framework for Python; it works smoothly and rarely gets in your way. Django is geared toward SQL databases, so it may not be the best choice if you prefer to ...

The Django Python-based Web application framework brings to Python developers the same kind of ease of use and rapid development capabilities that Ruby on Rails brings to Ruby developers.