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No, notice that "builtins" was in quotes. web2py does not actually add new members to __builtins__. Rather, web2py executes model files, controllers, and views in a pre-defined env…

> web2py appears both bad and unpopular to me. Regarding popularity, for some time now the web2py Google Group has had more postings than the Django group, and the web2py group mem…

> If I found myself talking to someone who had used web2py, I'd be very interested in their critique, but sadly in every case so far, it's been second hand. In two years of active …

> the smartest web hackers I know universally regard web2py as a fundamentally incorrect way to approach web development Would you care to elaborate on that? Have any of these smar…

Well, according to InfoWorld, web2py is the best Python framework ( http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/pillars-p... ). It also won a 2011 Bossie Award for open sour…

> try modeling a school, for example, with the relationships between teachers, students, parents, and classes. The DAL can be used to model any set of tables and relationships that…

Great. Thanks.

It would be interesting to see how you tried it in the DAL and the alternative that you found easier in SQLAlchemy. Can you show an example?

Sounds like FUD. Care to share some examples? Note, in most cases, the DAL has fewer, not more limitations than a typical ORM. web2py does use standard Python. What bad practices? …

No, the 1.0 vs. .08 is for the entire eight year period depicted, during most of which Node.js didn't even exist. What's relevant is the trend and how they compare right now -- RoR…

Many experienced developers use web2py and find it to be quite flexible and powerful. For example, see comments here ( http://harrywolff.com/2011/01/web-application-development-fr.…