[psykotic]

> But URL routing in Bottle is more similar to Sinatra than it is to the URL dispatching via a tuple at the top of a file.

Decorators, a Python 2.5 feature, weren't around when web.py was first released, so they couldn't have been used initially. Even after Python 2.5 came out, it took some time for decorators to be widely embraced. But routing and other kinds of dispatching (e.g. adapters and multimethods) are an obvious and indeed commonplace use of them.

I didn't down-vote you. I did get ever so slightly annoyed with your implication that Sinatra was the first to do this kind of thing and therefore necessarily a source of influence. Neither half of this claim is correct. Sinatra wasn't the first. Even if it were, it need not have been an influence; I wouldn't claim that web.py had to have influenced Sinatra just because it preceded it.