This is reminiscent of infogami. I dug up some old pages.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003008.h... http://blog.reddit.com/2006/02/infogami.html http://webpy.org/

I'm quite fond of web.py. It appears that it is still actively maintained and can do quite a lot.

http://webpy.org/cookbook/