[Web-SIG] WSGI for Python 3

[P.J. Eby]

At 07:20 PM 7/16/2010 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
>I'd much rather say be able to say:
>
>"""
>The PATH_INFO environment variable is a ``bytes-with-benefits`` type.
>To decode it:
>
>- First, split it on slashes::
>
>     segments = PATH_INFO.split('/')
>
>- Then, de-encode each segment's urlencoded portions:
>
>     urldecoded_segments = [ urllib.unquote(x) for x in segments ]
>
>- Then re-encode each urldecoded segment into the encoding expected
>   by your application
>
>     app_segments = [ str(x, encoding='utf-8') for x in
>                      urldecoded_segments ]
>"""

+1.  I do wish we actually *had* a bytes-with-benefits type (as I 
proposed on Python-Dev), but I don't think we can really get one 
until the language moratorium is over.  Plain old bytes are the next 
best thing.