Bottle looks like the answer. I read through the entire Tutorial in about 30 minutes and understood almost everything without even needing to try it out first.

Bottle looks like the answer. I read through the entire Tutorial in about 30 minutes and understood almost everything without even needing to try it out first. Got to the end and, "That's it? Wow that is simple." One can learn all they need in a short time and get cracking on some apps. First app is a web config interface on a Raspberry Pi-based IoT device. Web config app will be almost identical server-side so as to allow config from anywhere. I was going to do it all in CGI but this is much improved.