I've been busy, here it is, released under LGPL:
http://github.com/lukestanley/lustdb
This is not the same codebase Alex Martelli did which is here:
http://www.aleax.it/lustdb.zip
I wanted to make the code more readable and reusable with different
backends and such.
Elsewhere I have been working on object oriented HTML elements
accessable in Python in similar ways, AND a library for making web.py
more minimalist.
I'm thinking of ways of using all 3 elements together with automatic
MVC prototype construction.
While old fashioned text based template web programming will be around
for a while still because of legacy systems and because it doesn't
require any particular library or implementation, I feel soon we'll
have a lot more efficent ways of building robust, prototype friendly
web apps.