I am trying to start web development with Python, but the vast majority of resources online are geared towards using the Django stack, is there a more simple library stack I can use to begin building some simple pages ?
To be more precise I don't want to tangle with the MVC pattern in Python at this time, is there a Python equivalent to ASP.NET web forms or simple PHP non MVC sites ?
Solutions which would play well with the XAMPP stack would be a bonus but not a requirement.
You can have a look at:
they all are very decent python microframeworks.
For a list of many python frameworks, you can have a look at the python wiki
N.B.: I'm trying to be comprehensive to avoid framework troll that will flag this question as irrelevant
About your XAMPP edit, you can achieve this using the WSGI entry point (which usually is the default), which is pretty standard and cross platform. I don't know much about XAMPP (except what's on wikipedia), but it looks really targeted at Perl+PHP.
The Flask Mega Tutorial will help you build a Python site faster than anything else I've come across: http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-i-hello-world
