One of those things is a good ORM. I've used Subsonic, NHibernate, and Entity Framework in .NET and I am looking for something with the same set of capabilities. I've been reading about SQLAlchemy ...

The framework also provides a transaction method that handles commits, rollbacks, and nested transactions. Web.py uses a straightforward scheme to map URLs to handler code.

In conjunction with two other critical open source releases, Microsoft this week made its Entity Framework Core 1.0.0 available, providing a cross-platform version of the company’s flagship data ...