The beauty of Python, is that there is a lot of choices when it comes to frameworks. Actually, probably Python is one of the those langues which makes using a framework strictly optional. And there are so many options if you do things that are not your average web app.
With Ruby, you are stuck with one, good framework, but not much if you want to do things very differently.
Django, Pylons, Cherry.py, web.py, Turbogears, and countless of other frameworks.
And I completely agree, on the fact that object oriented programming in Python is not pretty at all, but as a language it wasn't necessary ment to be used that way.
Before picking Pylons I looked at Cherry.py very closely and I actually liked it the most. The reason why we decided to go with Pylons was that it seemed as Cherry.py is being abandoned by everybody in favor of Paste.
But as a lightweight way of exposing Python code to the web I found it very elegant.
Django, Pylons, Cherry.py, web.py, Turbogears, and countless of other frameworks.
And I completely agree, on the fact that object oriented programming in Python is not pretty at all, but as a language it wasn't necessary ment to be used that way.