[benedwards]

Saying Django is not appropriate for complex sites is just plain wrong. For whatever reason Django was just not a good fit for that author, but I think there's thousands of Djangonauts developing complex sites that would completely disagree with him.

Definitely don't pass on Django because of one guy's opinion.

[grayrest]

I'll agree with this.

Pylons is a win when:

1. You need SQLAlchemy. 2. You're not really leveraging the Django admin. 3. You don't need anything in pinax or the rest of the django apps.

I actually prefer the various wsgi options over Django (I was a TurboGears committer for a number of years) but Django is better for banging out sites where you need to implement common features since there's a fairly large pool of django apps to draw on. If you're doing something more complex, then there's no real technical (dis)advantage to Django but you'll have an easier time finding people who know the framework and the docs are better.