As an aside, AFAIK douban.com is still using Python and Quixote[1]. Back in 2007 they were doing 2 million pageviews per day[2,3]. According to Alexa they are busier yet now. They use the SCGI protocol as well.
2. http://mail.mems-exchange.org/durusmail/quixote-users/5441/
3. http://mail.mems-exchange.org/durusmail/quixote-users/5657/