Flask is a good choice for what you want to do. I'd suggest using SQLAlchemy with it. It's an absolutely excellent DB abstraction layer / ORM. William Denton <[log in to unmask]> writes: > I have a fairly basic web service I want to hack on that would manage some > stuff (not too much) and feed out JSON in response to request. I'd like to do > it in Python so I can get to know the language. > > StackOverflow is filled with comparisons of Python web frameworks, but I > wanted to get the sense from all the Python hackers here about what framework > might be a good one given their personal experiences. > > Django is very full-featured and well documented, and would make a complex > project simple, but I think has more than I need; Flask looks pretty simple > and could suit the basic service I want to do; web2py looks pretty rich. > > I know this isn't a particularly answerable question and the best thing to do > is to try one and hack on it, and do it right the second time, but since > future Python work might involve RDF and linked data, and there are so many > Python people here whose opinion I value, I thought I'd throw it out. > > Thanks, > > Bill