The chore library implements middleware on top of Python's BaseHTTPServer to permit straightforward implementation of custom, embedded web services.
The author implemented a dozen or so web services directly on top of Python, then used that experience to refactor into this middleware.
The "chore" middleware helps implement web servers, HTTPS, authentication, cookies, configuration file parsing, XML file processing, DNS tedium, a secure UDP messaging protocol (used for notifications), SHA packet protection, and code to flatten a wide variety of character encodings into base ASCII.