[Web-SIG] Future of WSGI

Malthe Borch mborch at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 15:54:51 CET 2009


2009/11/26 And Clover <and-py at doxdesk.com>:
> Whilst in principle I kind of agree with Malthe that keeping the CGI-derived
> environ separate from items like wsgi.input would be appropriate, in
> practice I don't give a stuff about it: the merged dictionary causes no
> practical problems, and changing it would be an enormous upheaval for all
> WSGI users.

It will anyway (moving to Python 3).

> WSGI doesn't need to be pretty, it needs to be widely-compatible. Authors
> who want pretty can use frameworks, which will be happy to deliver elegant
> Request and Response objects.

It's not about pretty more than PEP 8 is about pretty (hint: it's not).

\malthe


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