What are the various Python CMS's and their statuses?

I'm usually a PHP developer that has lots of experience with Drupal CMS & framework. And I realize Drupal is very mature, but I don't know much about the Python scene.

I've heard the following CMSs be mentioned:

• Plone
• Django (framework)

What other CMSs are there, and what do you think are some of the pros and cons? How mature are they? Is it even worth starting to use Python for general web development?

My vote is for Django CMS. Django itself is a development framework (but one that gives you a lot for free, including an excellent pluggable admin interface). DjangoCMS is an application that you can install into a Django application. I am using DjangoCMS and, as a Django user, I think it's perfect. I'm not what non-Django users would think. It's no Wordpress.

Here is a page which lists the Python based CMS. Zope based Plone is the very popular one and very mature too. Apart from that you, have customized solutions built using Django, like Django-CMS and also there are wiki like MoinMoin Engines. That page gives a lot of options for you.

Django is not a CMS; it's a web development framework.

That said, Django's roots come from newspaper-oriented CMS-like systems. Unsurprisingly, that makes Django a very good platform on which to create a CMS.

You can check the state of Django-based CMSs on Django-packages, which tracks the project metrics of many packages.