Some people still do... it's just that that means you've got to reinvent the wheel again when you inevitably need something like authentication, CRUD views, database support etc... that's where Django comes in I think; it can handle all that but also stays out of the way a lot more than other frameworks in my opinion.

You can deploy Django apps on Apache with mod_wsgi, maybe that's what they meant. Not sure about mod_python... I think it's dead.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/howto/deployment/wsgi/...