Have a look at Tornado:

http://www.tornadoweb.org/

It's our default "get something up and running quickly" Python framework.

-Andrew

On 2012-07-10, at 8:05 PM, William Denton wrote:

> 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
> -- 
> William Denton
> Toronto, Canada
> http://www.miskatonic.org/