Check out the "Web micro-framework battle" by Richard Jones talk. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYjPIMe0BhA, slides: http://www.slideshare.net/r1chardj0n3s/web-microframework-ba....

Flask is really simple to get started with

http://flask.pocoo.org/

What about Bottle[1]? I love it.

[1]: http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/

bottle's great. With any of the microframeworks, transitioning to something a little more hefty is pretty easy. I 'migrated' from bottle to tornado in a matter of a few hours, and I'm a python newbie

Not familiar with Tornado but are you aware that you can use it as a backend for Bottle?

Thanks, I'll give 'er a look

bottle... flask... PoW... too many micro frameworks?

Not sure what you mean?