[Web-SIG] Revising environ['wsgi.input'].readline in the WSGI specification

[Manlio Perillo]

Phillip J. Eby ha scritto:
> At 08:49 PM 11/17/2008 +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote:
>> Ian Bicking ha scritto:
>>> [...]
>>> We need to propose a change to the WSGI specification.  I propose, in 
>>> "Input and Error Streams" 
>>> (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/#input-and-error-streams) we 
>>> change it to have "readline(hint)" and expand Note 3 to include 
>>> readline as well as readlines, removing Note 2.  Also I suppose some 
>>> sort of change note in the specification?
>>> Does this sound like a sufficient change to the spec, and are there 
>>> any objections to the change?
>>
>> Fine for me, but of course we need to do this as:
>> 1) Errata to WSGI 1.0
>> or
>> 2) WSGI 1.1
>> or
>> 3) WSGI 2.0
>>
>> You can't just modify the current WSGI 1.0 spec.
>>
>> I'm for 2), with the other clarifications about WSGI we have discussed 
>> in the past.
> 
> I'm more inclined towards #1.  

I'm not sure, since it is an API change; of course if there was an error 
in the API this should be an errata, but there is a rationale behind the 
current API.

I'm fine, however, with an amendment.


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Regards   Manlio Perillo