I couldn't disagree more that Django's code is horrible. In my experience (which isn't much to be honest), Django's code is a pleasure to read. That said, I d

I couldn't disagree more that Django's code is horrible. In my experience (which isn't much to be honest), Django's code is a pleasure to read. That said, I do think that a case can be made that Django's architecture has some definite warts. Whether or not they are a huge deal is largely a matter of opinion. For instance, I do agree with the author that Django does have a bit of an overreliance on import-time side effects. I particularly don't like the fact that I can't even import some parts of Django without having a settings.py defined. On the other hand, I don't know how difficult it would be to change it.