Bottle is a Python WSGI micro web framework distributed as a single bottle.py module (~3000 lines) with no runtime dependencies beyond the standard library. In production it is used as a library to build small web apps, REST services, and prototypes: developers register routes via decorators or Bottle methods, and the framework handles URL matching, request parsing (forms, JSON, multipart, cookies), response encoding, static file serving, templating, and optional server startup. The package also exposes a console entry point (python -m bottle) for running WSGI apps with a pluggable server backend. Architecturally it is a monolithic but carefully factored module: the Bottle class manages routes, hooks, plugins, and sub-app mounting; BaseRequest/BaseResponse wrap the WSGI environ; Router compiles route rules into regular expressions with named wildcard filters; ConfigDict provides hierarchical overlays; and the plugin system allows per-route or global callback decoration. Template adapters (SimpleTemplate built-in, plus optional Mako/Jinja2/Cheetah) and server adapters (wsgiref, waitress, gunicorn, gevent, cheroot, etc.) are swappable behind common interfaces. The test suite is comprehensive and CI runs Python 3.9-3.13. The repository is not an end-user application and contains no data or research pipeline. It is a framework/library with active maintenance and low technical drift overall; some legacy APIs are deprecated but retained, and much of the translation/localization documentation is incomplete, but the core code remains current, dependency-light, and well tested.