[Web-SIG] Request for Comments on upcoming WSGI Changes

[René Dudfield]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
>
> OTOH, I suspect the Python 3 stdlib is still broken if it requires native
> strings in various places (and prohibits the use of bytes).

yes, python3 stdlib should support 'str'(the old unicode), 'buffer'
and 'bytes' for web using stuff.  Buffer is important because it's a
type also used for sockets(along with bytes) and it allows less memory
allocation (because you can reuse buffers).

cheers,