I don't know what your project is, but a web framework might make your system more scalable and maintainable if it gets larger. They often provide useful mechanisms for maintaining state and persistance.
Template systems IMHO should be considered separately from App frameworks (although they may be integrated). If you will frequently be rendering web pages that are predominantly static but augmented with dynamically generated/retrieved data, templates are a good way to go. However, they can confuse if your system is only simple. In that case, I wouldn't go for a full blown templating engine but 'roll my own' using python dictionaries and 'string interpolation' (a daft name as it isn't really interpolation). Furthermore, app frameworks are sometimes a pain to install on a webserver, particularly if you do not have control of it. It all depends on your project size, your willingness to spend some serious time climbing the learning curve associated with a framework, and the server you wish to deploy on. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
