[Web-SIG] reorg of web-related modules for Python 3K

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Mon Feb 4 16:31:15 CET 2008


> I think WSGI is a better interface than any of these.  BaseHTTPServer is 
> a reasonable basis for building a server (wsgiref.simple_server and 
> other's use it), but the subclasses are a little funky IMHO.  Giving 
> them the name http.server makes them seem like the Right Solution, and I 
> don't think they are.  They're more like server-building tools.

Yes, these classes are quite old, and have been updated only patchily
over the years.  I don't use them, either.  But I guess the question
is whether wsgiref.* is a better _implementation_ than any of these.
We don't really have interfaces in Python.

Bill





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