I've recently switched to Blogofile for a couple of my sites, one of which was previously using Jekyll (a similar blog compiler written in Ruby). Blogofile has been great; I'd love to see it grow.

I've actually written code to add static pages to Blogofile. I've been meaning to contribute it; I hope I'll get around to it soon.

Similar to blogofile is Jekyll (http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki), which powers Github Pages. It's written in Ruby, so it doesn't meet your exact skill set, but Ruby and Python in my experience are fairly similar.