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Just because a framework offers views doesn't mean that it's too heavy for you. If no views are being processed, they're adding a negligible amount of overhead just from loading the code.

You don't necessarily even need a framework. You could use some libraries. You only need: routing, HTTP request processing, and HTTP response preparation.

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links please ?

I've actually only used Django, Flask, and CherryPy for Python projects, so I haven't researched that stuff.

In general, I strongly support the idea of tying together tiny libraries, rather than using a framework. It takes months to learn every line of code in an end-to-end framework, but if you're pulling in just the 2-3 libraries you need, you can understand every line of your code. That's really important for efficiency/bugfixing/maintenance.

You might want to check out Bobo: http://bobo.digicool.com/en/latest/index.html

You could check out werkzeug: http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/

Note: Flask is basically just a combination of werkzeug and jinja for templating.

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