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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Nov 18 16:44:57 CET 2008


At 09:30 AM 11/18/2008 +1100, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
>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.

Please note that that was a change in Python 2.5; older Pythons 
(including Jython until very recently) would not have needed a 
readline() argument, and so are less likely to have been tested that way.



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