Ok. We're on the same track then but I would put it a little more friendly at the moment but I probably haven't got enough experience yet.<p>I spotted werkzeug ('tool' in German) a while ago and it definitely looked very good.<p>I've built 3 sites in Django now, two small ones and one larger one. The small ones worked fine, the larger one Django immediately turned from 'enabler' in to 'straightjacket'.<p>I hand coded the forms so they're not even part of the frustration, the ORM is definitely a limiting factor, agreed with the AJAX oversights, even the simplest stuff and you're immediately out of django in to 'roll your own' mode.<p>Not having multiple db connections was one of the first things I was wondering about how serious this package really was, after all almost all non-trivial setups will access multiple dbs, even if not at the same time then sequentally.<p>Import wasn't much of a problem for me because I did the import by talking to the DB exclusively, I had the 'export' in exactly the right format for import into the mysql django tables. But it would have been nice to have a tool handy to do that.<p>The admin is fine until you have more than just a toy dataset, and the way in which you configure the admin has altogether too many little 'magic' steps in it.<p>So far it's been a mixed bag. For small sites probably a good fit, for larger ones probably not.<p>Fully agreed on the template limitations, and the lame excuses around not having some basic functionality in there are really trying my patience.<p>But I haven't seen anything yet that I felt <i>really</i> was a step up from the rest.<p>I'll keep looking though.