[Web-SIG] Python 3.0 and WSGI 1.0.

[James Y Knight]

On Apr 16, 2009, at 3:12 AM, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> I am not sure we ended up with a final answer on all of this, but I
> don't want to hold up mod_wsgi 3.0, which includes Python 3.0 support,
> any longer. As such, am implementing things as per:
>
>  http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0
>
> with exception that will not be attempting to do decoding per RFC
> 2047. Any CGI variables not related to HTTP headers will also be
> handled as latin-1, including SCRIPT_NAME, PATH_INFO and QUERY_STRING.
> This should be equivalent with what wsgiref does in Python 3.X and
> basically keeps the status quo.
>
> If anyone has any last things to say on all of this, please speak up  
> now.


IMO it would make more sense to have the headers be bytes instead of  
strings decoded/encoded with latin-1, but it's not a huge deal...

James