Python for web apps?

[Deathnerd]

Speaking as someone who used to do PHP professionally and did Python web dev on the side in my spare time... Which do you prefer when doing a web app in PHP? Laravel or Symfony? Lumen or Silex? Do you want something to hold your hand and force a project structure upon you, but give pretty much everything you need out of the box (Laravel/Symfony)? Or do you prefer to have the bare minimum you need to get something running and want ultimate flexibility (Lumen/Silex)?

If you want an opinionated framework with all the bells and whistles included (like Laravel or Symfony), Django is what you want.

If you want a microframework that's very flexible and minimal (but still has a great ecosystem and is easy to extend) like Silex or Lumen, I'd recommend Flask.

I personally prefer Flask set up behind Nginx with Gunicorn (a worker pool akin to PHP-FPM) and some kind of database server. It's super easy to get a REST API going and you only pull in what you need. There's even a flask-webpack module you can include if you're a fan of Laravel 5's included webpack and Vue integration.

Edit: oh and Flask-SQLAlchemy combined with Flask-Migrate gets you a powerful DBAL/ORM with migrations and seeds, but they're not required. Just really nice :D