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

Alan Kennedy pywebsig at xhaus.com
Tue Nov 18 13:02:37 CET 2008


[Graham]
> I would be for (1) errata or amendment as reality is that there is
> probably no WSGI implementation that disallows an argument to
> readline() given that certain Python code such as cgi.FieldStorage
> wouldn't work otherwise.
>
> For such a clarification on existing practice, I see no point in
> having to change wsgi.version in environ as it would just cause
> confusion.

+1

[Graham]
> I would also like to see other changes to WSGI specification but now
> is not the time, let us at least though get this obvious issue with
> API dealt with. After that we can then perhaps have a discussion of
> future of WSGI specification and whether there really is any interest
> in future versions with more significant changes.

+1

Alan.


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