[jvdongen]

In addition to templating, orm and routing there is also highly integrated i18n toolchain/workflow, built-in csrf protection, good session handling, well integrated caching and many more of such 'details'.

All those things by themselves could be considered trivial and could be gotten from many individual libraries - the level of integration and polish you encounter with Django is anything but trivial though and takes real time and effort.

I've recently had to make a choice for a Python based application platform/environment and have chosen Django (again) despite having no use for the ORM and ORM-using contrib modules. Simply because all the other things are there and work together beautifully without me spending any time on code that is not directly related to my goals.