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Voted down because the author has formulated uninformed, negative opinions based solely around TurboGears, and applied those opinions to Python web frameworks as a whole.

There are plenty of frameworks that rock in Python, choose the right tool for the task,
http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks

Also, Rails is not the only Ruby framework - there are many, many others.

Django is good.

It's true that it's more geared towards turboGears, and that I do not have explored the myriad of other frameworks yet.
At first look, and after reading some blog post and documentation, I've discarded Django (maybe an error)
Zope look like it's a cms, and it's not what I'm looking for.
Furthermore, I'm looking for something WSGI compliant, and that I can plug into apache.

You have to admit that they are so many, that I cannot review all of them.
Certainly other frameworks will address some of my grips, but not all.

This post first started as a scream, and ended as a question: "What do you use when you don't want to use ORM

Thanks to the comments I've received on my blog, I am slowly going towards an web.py for the business, psycopg2 for the DB layer and Amara for XML + XSL outputting as the view engine.

In the end, it looks like I'm going to replicate my PHP standard environment to Python.

oh, you discarded the two biggest frameworks in python in your 'research'.
oh...

I did not do any research. And if Django is one of them, which is the other one ?