[Web-SIG] Python 3.0 and WSGI 1.0.

[Robert Brewer]

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 09:37 +1000, 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.
> >>
> > That sounds fine to me, Graham, and is what I'll be implementing in my
> > python3 branch for CherryPy barring any unforeseen impediments.
> 
> Are you moving to use of empty string as end of input sentinel for
> wsgi.input for case where code does actually read more than
> CONTENT_LENGTH?

Sure; I think that's reasonable. It's supposed to be 'file-like'.


Robert Brewer
fumanchu at aminus.org