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The reason you have to start looking in settings.py and urls.py is because you used "django-admin.py startproject". Why would you do that? Probably because it provides a nice and common layout with some sensible default configuration.

But you don't have to use "startproject". Here's an example: http://olifante.blogs.com/covil/2010/04/minimal-django.html

No, I don't recommend you to do that. Use Flask, Bottle or any other lightweight framework/library you want to use. Just don't get hung up on how the Django docs suggests you structure your project. It's all still Python.