Flask is also awesome for python-based web development. I found it very easy to jump in as the docs are great: http://flask.pocoo.org/
Here's the post's Django example written using Flask: https://gist.github.com/1296926
Here's the post's Django example written using Flask: https://gist.github.com/1296926
I really dig the Flask project (love the website and the docs, and everybody who uses it raves about it) and I hope to play with it more in the future, but I don't think I'd recommend it to somebody who is a first timer, largely because of one issue: Data. Flask leaves you to sort it out on your own, which is great if you're capable of that, but Django holds your hand, which is more appropriate for a beginner.
And it makes sense -- I think Flask is a much easier introduction to config and the VC of MVC development... but once you get to the M, well... SQLAlchemy is great, but the learning curve is steeper. And even though Flask has a well-documented extension for that, it's still another package and a separate piece of documentation.
I thought about doing the same thing as I read through it.