[Python-Dev] Adding wsgiref

[Guido van Rossum]

On 4/22/06, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
> What with all the discussion that resulted from setuptools, we should
> probably also discuss the suggestion to add wsgiref to the standard
> library.  PEP 356 doesn't have many details about what's under consideration.
>
> (wsgiref is an implementation of the WSGI interface defined in PEP 333.
> I believe the latest version is at
> <svn://svn.eby-sarna.com/svnroot/wsgiref/src/wsgiref>.)
>
> I expect that most of the package would be added.  wsgiref.handlers is
> the heart of it, and needs wsgiref.{headers,util}.
> wsgiref.simple_server might be debatable; the module docstring warns
> that the code hasn't been reviewed for security issues, but on the
> other hand if there's a WSGI library, we do want the available HTTP
> server to support it.

I'd like simple_server; I've got an app based on it already.

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