pyRobot: Blog engine without a database, Anyone interested? Options

[*mipadi*]

I currently have a blog that resides on a Windows server. The blog engine is written in ASP with a Microsoft Access backend. Unfortunately, this is not the most portable code, and I'd like to move to something with more support.

I have access to a Unix-based server that has Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby. Unfortunately, I do not have access to MySQL, and an Oracle database would be a pain to set up.

Thus, I have decided to write a blog engine, in either PHP or Python (most likely python) that works with flat files—i.e., a bunch of text/XHTML files, not a database. Ideally this would be a very small, lean, simple system for managing a basic blog engine (i.e. no fancy bells and whistles, just the display of content with some simple navigation options). It would run on any server that allowed Python (or PHP if I use PHP). My idea is that, to add posts to a blog, one would merely have to upload a file to a specified directory on the server, and the post would be added automagically with no other interaction on the part of the user.

To motivate me to actually build this, I wondered if there were any others that might actually be interested in using it. I'd release it for free, of course. I know a lot of people on cB don't have access to a SQL database, so I thought this might be helpful.