Denied: Python Micro-Framework (Sinatra-like)

I think this is supposed to be a April's fools joke.<p>- github user created in April's 1st (<a href="http://github.com/denied" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/denied</a>)<p>- contact is an email link to Armin Ronacher (<a href="http://github.com/mitsuhiko" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/mitsuhiko</a>), who actually published the denied code in github<p>- code basically just uses jinja2 and werkzeug, which are a template language and a web framework, respectively, which Armin works on<p>So... yeah.

This looks really similar to Bottle. <a href="http://github.com/defnull/bottle" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/defnull/bottle</a><p>I haven't looked at the source, and the documentation is nonexistent, but the example app and the routing look really close. See <a href="http://bottle.paws.de/" rel="nofollow">http://bottle.paws.de/</a> also.<p>Edit: Made comment a little less harsh :)

If anyone liked the idea, but not as a joke, there is itty:<p><a href="http://github.com/toastdriven/itty/" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/toastdriven/itty/</a><p>It's a self-described "little-experiment" based on Sinatra.

To be frank, I'm not going to TOUCH a library that contains 400k of base64-encoded zip data.<p>If it wasn't actually an April fools joke, bad form.

The source is good for a laugh:<p><a href="http://github.com/denied/denied/blob/master/deny.py" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/denied/denied/blob/master/deny.py</a>

Not as pretty as Sinatra's example page, but I like the home page for the project! Great name too.

It would be good joke, only... Python has so many ugly web-frameworks, that this doesn't make any difference.

<p><pre><code> if __name__ == '__main__': run() </code></pre> Am I the only one who thinks that this is just plain horrible? It's incomprehensible voodoo.