[Web-SIG] PEP 444

[Chris McDonough]

On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 09:32 -0800, Alice Bevan-McGregor wrote:
> > PEP 444 has no champion currently.  Both Armin and I have basically left it behind.  It would be great if you wanted to be its champion.
> 
> Done.
> 
> As I already have a functional, performant HTTP server[1] and example filter[2] (compression) utilizing a slightly modified version of PEP 444, and hope to be giving a presentation on its design and related utilities[3] early next year, I’d love to have the opportunity to directly shape its future.  My server may be a bit large to be a reference implementation, but until it has its first user I have the benefit of being able to experiment whole-heartedly with features and proposals.
> 
> Since Python 3 was released I haven’t heard of much forward-progress in getting web frameworks compatible.  The largest complaint I’ve heard is that there are too few things already ported, which is a chicken and the egg problem.  This is one scenario where re-inventing the wheel may be the only way to see forward movement.  So far, I seem to be buckling down and Getting Things Done™ in this regard.
> 
> How would I go about getting access to the PEP in order to fix the issues I’ve been catching up on?  (I’ve been reading through quite a bit of old mailing list traffic these last few hours in-between writing docs and unit tests for the compression egress filter.)

Georg Brandl has thus far been updating the canonical PEP on python.org.
I don't know how you get access to that.  My working copy is at
https://github.com/mcdonc/web3 .

- C