[Web-SIG] PEP 444 (aka Web3)

[Armin Ronacher]

Hi,

On 9/16/10 1:23 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> I find the order of the application return arguments really annoying,
> could it just be status, headers, body? Mirrors the actual structure
> of the request, which is easier to remember IMO.
The motivation is that you can pass that to constructors of response 
objects already in place.

response_tuple = response.get_response_tuple()
response = Response(*response_tuple)

The order "body", "status code", "headers" is what Werkzeug and WebOb 
are currently using.  Django has (content, mimetype, status) as 
constructor but if they detect a list/dict on the third parameter they 
could assume that mimetype referes to the status thus they have a proper 
upgrade path.

> Also, I would really like it if the header value returned by
> applications must be checked for an .items() method so we can return
> (o)dicts in addition to tuples.
That would be a nice to have, but makes the middleware logic harder 
because each middleware would have to check for the type.

> I also keep thinking that some things (for example status) should just
> be allowed to be text, but restricted to ascii.
Works for 2.x, but on 3.x that would mean each middleware would have to 
check the type before each operation and convert to bytes if necessary 
which means a lot of overhead for each middleware in the stack.


Regards,
Armin