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

[Tres Seaver]

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Manlio Perillo wrote:
> 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.

Isn't the rationale completely defeated by the equivalent, relaxed form
for 'readlines' (note #3).  That was why I voted +1:  I couldn't see
that relaxing 'readline' to match 'readlines' would make life any harder
on server implementers.


Tres.
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