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

[Robert Brewer]

P.J. Eby wrote:
> At 07:57 AM 9/21/2009 +0200, Armin Ronacher wrote:
> >Chris McDonough schrieb:
> > > Personally, I find it a bit hard to get excited about Python 3 as
a
> > > web application deployment platform.
> > Everybody feels that way currently.  But if we don't fix WSGI that
> > will never change.
> 
> This is only compounding the errors introduced by the "make the tests
> pass" philosophy of "porting" the stdlib.  We should not make them
> worse.
> 
> At the moment (AFAIK) nobody has gone through the web bits of the
> stdlib and asked, "Should this work on strings, bytes, or both, and
> if both, how should that API be expressed?"

Perhaps not, but I wrote unquote_bytes at PyCon 2009, after discussing
urllib in the python-dev room and being told no bytes-compatible version
was desired in the stdlib. So *some* thought has gone into it.


Robert Brewer
fumanchu at aminus.org