1and1 claims that they support Python. I am able to create python scripts, and put them in cron job. I can also create python script to serve as web page by giving it executable right. The script looks like:

#!/usr/bin/python2.5
print “Content-Type: text/html”
print
print “”"\
<html>
<body>
<h2>Hello World!</h2>
</body>
</html>
“”"
The default version of python, /usr/bin/python is 2.4.4

But here is the catch, 1and1 does not have a python web framework available! They do have django on the server, but django-admin is no where to be found. :(   Ruby is also on 1and1, but no Rails!!!