Python needs a rails, one that appears polished (nice website design, nice graphics) and has enough resources for learning it (learn jetpython the hard way) - because as an outsider looking to go into programming web apps, rails seems much nicer with the appealing sites being made in its ecosystem. It should be like rails in the sense that for newbs, all the default config is done and will have the best options for new users, like rails does.

Right now, based on my perceptions as a non-user (which is an important crowd), python appears nicer to use but given there is no killer web framework agreed upon to the extent of rails, I am more likely to start learning ruby instead.

Will it happen for python? Posts like this seem a step in the right direction: http://www.scribd.com/doc/37113340/Why-Django-Sucks-and-How-we-Can-Fix-it