Django ease of building a RESTful interface
A little over a year ago, I wrote a REST web service in Django for a large Seattle company that does streaming media on the Internet.
Django was excellent for the purpose.  As "a paid nerd" observed, the Django URL config is wonderful: you can set up your URLs just the way you want them, and have it serve up the appropriate objects.
The one thing I didn't like: the Django ORM has absolutely no support for binary BLOBs.  If you want to serve up photos or something, you will need to keep them in a file system, and not in a database.  Because we were using multiple servers, I had to choose between writing my own BLOB support or finding some replication framework that would keep all the servers up to date with the latest binary data.  (I chose to write my own BLOB support.  It wasn't very hard, so I was actually annoyed that the Django guys didn't do that work.  There should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do something.)
I really like the Django ORM.  It makes the database part really easy; you don't need to know any SQL.  (I don't like SQL and I do like Python, so it's a double win.)  The "admin interface", which you get for free, gives you a great way to look through your data, and to poke data in during testing and development.
I recommend Django without reservation.
I'm looking for an excuse to learn Django for a new project that has come up. Typically I like to build RESTful server-side interfaces where a URL maps to resources that spits out data in some platform independent context, such as XML or JSON. This is 
rather straightforward to do without the use of frameworks, but some of them such as Ruby on Rails conveniently allow you to easily spit back XML to a client based on the type of URL you pass it, based on your existing model code. 
My question is, does something like Django have support for this? I've googled and found some 'RESTful' 3rd party code that can go on top of Django. Not sure if I'm too keen on that.
If not Django, any other Python framework that's already built with this in mind so I do not have to reinvent the wheel as I already have in languages like PHP?