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+Quixote is yet another framework for developing Web applications in
+Python.  The design goals were:
+
+- To make the templating language as similar to Python in semantics as
+  possible.  The aim is to make as many of the skills and structural
+  techniques used in writing regular Python code applicable to Web
+  applications built using Quixote.
+- To allow easy development of Web applications where the accent is more on
+  complicated programming logic than complicated templating.
+- The entire system should be implementable in a week or two.
+- No magical behaviour.  When it's not obvious what to do in a certain case,
+  Quixote refuses to guess.  
+
+Quixote works by using a Python package to store all the code and HTML for a
+Web-based application.  There's a simple framework for publishing code and
+objects on the Web, and the publishing loop can be customized by subclassing
+the Publisher class.  You can think of it as a toolkit to build your own
+smaller, simpler version of Zope, specialized for your application.
+
+Author:   A.M. Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>
+WWW:      http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/quixote/
+See also: http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/mx-architecture/
+
+-- Johann Visagie <wjv@FreeBSD.org>