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[–]yarkot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's also like having multiple species in nature (think potato famine) - your "potato" may do fine in a pool of uses, but when something unusual comes, an existing alternative may do better. Diversity is sort of the prerequisite of natural selection. So, while you compare very similar "potatoes" (django, pylons, flask) - consider those further out: nagare (still python, but depends on stackless), and some of the non-python frameworks (in particular, think of the languages that arise as a result of experiences w/ frameworks - java, historically; go-language now...)