It's a real shame that support for Python Server Pages is as rare as it is in the wild, and that we don't see that kind of capability common in other server side languages. I really think that the ability to mix HTML and server code together painlessly is one of the main advantages that PHP still has today. It's the reason I still use it for new projects even though I dislike almost everything about the language itself.
If I could just say <?coffeescript like that, my programmer-happiness rating would quadruple instantly.
I'd love to see Python Server Pages as well but not implemented anything like it is in PHP. Mixing View and MVC Controller methods/classes in View pages is simply not a sustainable model. Following the PHP example here would seriously taint Python's potential for webapps. Java's JSP, OTOH, is the reference model for that.
One big plus for Python Server Pages is the ability to pre-compile into bytecode. True Python doesn't have near the level of compile-time checking that Java does, but it that could be written into a framework...
If I could just say <?coffeescript like that, my programmer-happiness rating would quadruple instantly.