I just finished going through a Django tutorial.

My first impression is that Django is perhaps a little trickier to get going than Ruby on Rails (though this probably becomes immaterial once you get accustomed to it). The thing that I really like about Django is that the basic paradigm for setting up models makes more sense to me – that is, in Django, you write Python code to represent your model and Django generates the SQL for your database. This is the opposite of the approach of Rails where you start with database tables and RoR does introspection and generates the code for the model. Personally, I am more comfortable with code than with SQL so this feels better to me. Also, SQL can vary between database implementations (i.e.: sqlite vs. MySQL vs. Postgres) so code seems like the more “stable” representation.