Tools and templates

What tools and libraries should I use when writing infrastructure-style projects? Do we have a preferred technology list? Is there a style guide or standard templates that I can use?

This came about in writing a little web application for tracking the changes in Linaro GCC vs upstream: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/patchtrack/

The code is at https://code.launchpad.net/~michaelh1/+junk/patchtrack. It uses web.py for the app engine, web.py's built-in template engine, and a hacked up version of the wiki template. I'd love to use tools that somebody else knows as well though :)

Canonical have a preferred technology list but it's a bit heavy - zope or django are an overkill for something like this.

Any thoughts?

-- Michael