simple web-server

[Pavol Murin]

hello python users,

 could you point me to a very simple (single file is best) web-server?
I want to serve a few web-forms and run some shell scripts when the
forms are submitted. I might add Ajax later (this is not a
requirement, if it only supports forms it's OK).

 Longer story:

 I would like to provide a web-page for customization of an
application - it should run some shell commands as the user clicks
around in the page and at the end write a configuration file. I had a
look at the python wiki (http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebProgramming),
where various web servers and frameworks are listed. The frameworks
seem to heavy for such a simple task and BaseHTTPServer just seems to
be too light. So I took a look at the web-servers listed:
 httpy had the last release 1,5 years ago, Medusa more than 5 years,
Twisted seems to be able to do a lot, so probably not the simple thing
I'm looking for. CherryPy looks promising, however it is still 89
files (including some that can be removed).

 If CGIHTTPServer is a good answer, could you point me to a good
(nontrivial) example?

 thank you, muro