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Greg Wilson is among those who think the pronouncement by Guido about Django being his favorite web framework is very good for Python.

He cites Rails as an example of a framework that is successful in part because of being the only popular framework in the Ruby language (oh, the obsession with this).

His arguments:

1. Number of books on Rails: 12. Books on "all the other Python web frameworks put together": 0.
2. Number of popular Rails gatherings, including conferences: 20. Python: less.

He obviously is bending the numbers to try and prove his point. For example, he includes books in print or in the works for his Rails totals, but excludes books "in the works" category from the Python totals.

But his complete disdain for Zope (I can't believe he hasn't heard of it or is unaware that it is written in Python) really makes his post useless. Just consider the numbers he chose to omit:

1. Number of Zope books, including Plone: 15, and those are just the ones I know about.
2. Number of Zope gatherings: at least 8, but half of those are real conferences, not "pub gatherings".

As I wrote before, at one time Zope was widely considered to be Python's Killer App and web framework. This may not be the case anymore, but not even counting it among Python web offerings is certainly an exaggeration, to say the least.