[Python-ideas] Standardising ASGI as a PEP

[Nathaniel Smith]

The WSGI PEP is a bit of a funny thing, since it's a PEP that doesn't
really involve the language or stdlib. (I guess there's wsgiref, but I
don't think it being in the stdlib actually affects much these days.)

What are you hoping to accomplish by making ASGI a PEP?

-n

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Andrew Godwin <andrew at aeracode.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to breach the topic of standardising an asynchronous successor to
> WSGI - specifically, the ASGI specification I and a group of other Python
> web developers have been refining over the past couple of years (you can
> read more at https://asgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
>
> I'm unsure of the best approach to take for this, given a couple of factors:
>
>  - Web SIG has been basically dead for at least two years and several
> maintainers I know unsubscribed from it last time as things got toxic. It
> appears to not be a good place to start this discussion, but maybe it can be
> revived?
>
>  - The specification as I would propose it is two or three parts - an
> overall interface for asynchronous servers to talk to applications and then
> a separate specification(s) of how to transport HTTP and WebSockets over
> that. Would this be multiple PEPs?
>
> I'd appreciate advice from you all on these questions as well as what you
> think the best way to even approach something like "let's add a WSGI
> successor" is.
>
> My initial approach was to go away and prove something in real-world use and
> across a variety of frameworks, and we seem to have got to that point, and
> so now I would like to start making it more official.
>
> I'm more than ready to take the specification we have and start prepping it
> to land into the PEP repo for further discussion, but I wanted to check in
> here first before jumping the gun (and besides, there's already plenty of
> specs, write ups, and reference code to discuss the merits of this).
>
> Andrew
>
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