as great as mod_python is, there are lots of restrictions and limitations to what youc an do with it because of limitations of apache itself, and I am refereing to apache 2.x as well as 1.x, like others are saying if you don't need apache specific things it will just be one more thing to work around the design constraints it causes, twisted will be you best bet
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