I personally can’t stand the underscore counting django database idiom, and much prefer SQLAlchemy’s approach.  
It’s not that it uses underscores per say, more that it’s not intuitive (to me at least) . 
It does (however much I don’t like it) however give users (as in us programmers) a consistant way to use the api, and this is what draws people to django.
SQLAlchemy has too many ways to do the same thing, and you’ve pretty much got to understand big chunks of the api before you can use it properly.
That being said,  that might not be a bad thing.

I think Cheetah is a nicer template engine, but I’ve found there is still enough flexibility in Django’s template system to get what I need done, done.

Eric

RE comment responses, Sounds good, I’ve added something which says it does that.

It’s Pylons. The FAQ entry is out of date.

http://reddit.com/info/69j0t/comments/c038rlx

(spez is the technical cofounder and lead developer of Reddit).

“I can’t stand your template language. Do I have to use it?

We happen to think our template engine is the best thing since chunky bacon, but we recognize that choosing a template language runs close to religion. There’s nothing about Django that requires using the template language, so if you’re attached to ZPT, Cheetah, or whatever, feel free to use those.”

On an unrelated note, as you’re using Wordpress, it would be *really* nice if you could get the plugin that allows people who leave comments to be notified of responses via email so that people like myself can carry on a conversation.

http://reddit.com/help/faq

(near the bottom)

@Adam:

Re: Templating… Perhaps you are the one who hasn’t used many templating languages… The Django default templates are quite simply entirely useless. Name _any_ other templating system and you’ve got yourself a better alternative. I’m not even going to name any since literally all of them are better than the default Django stuff.

Re: “proving you’re an idiot”… Why not, instead of just trolling, give some examples of what you would use it for… I found it a pain to setup for anything but trivial models. Painful to customize and would never consider pointing a client to it to do updates to their site/content. It’s marginally better than invoking an interpreter and manually creating and editing your records.

Reddit is done with django.

The module system is very useful, indeed. It makes it _very_ easy to integrate with somebody else’s code (if properly designed).

Eh, it’s funny because it’s the first thing I liked about Django and I never heard anybody complaining about it.

If you’re really not happy with it you can change it and use whatever python template system you like.

Cheers.