[Web-SIG] WSGI for Python 3

[Tres Seaver]

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P.J. Eby wrote:
> 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. 

We might be able to write one which would work in reduce-instruction-set
mode, and have the server wrap the environ valuee in it.  Some
operations might not be "natural", and we might have to implement some
wrappers around stdlib stuff, but maybe it would be worthwhile to try a
spike on it.


Tres.
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