CGI vs WSGI

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

tuom.larsen at gmail.com a écrit :
> Dear all,
> 
> what is the difference? Middleware?
> 
> I'm wondering because the only variables I ever needed were PATH_INFO,
> REQUEST_METHOD, QUERY_STRING and maybe one more, all of which should
> be available from CGI, too.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

WSGI is intented as a gateway between a web server and a long-running 
python application. Which means you don't have to launch a new Python 
interpreter, import libs, parse config, connect to the database etc etc 
for each and every request.

Also, it's (IMHO) much more usable than CGI.