[Web-SIG] CGI in PEP 444

hidura at gmail.com hidura at gmail.com
Tue Jan 4 18:57:17 CET 2011


> CGI is by far the quickest and easiest way to write and deploy very  
> simple web site scripts. As you move to improve Python for important  
> industrial strength web programming, why not also continue to support  
> quick and dirty web interactivity scripts?
Because CGI is an old fashion way to make the things and is very different  
from the strength web programming. I don't say that we have to abandon the  
easy way but wsgi provides an easy way to work and with the PEP-3333 will  
be able in Py3k so CGI will be no useless.

El , Ron Stephens <rdsteph at mac.com> escribió:
> CGI is by far the quickest and easiest way to write and deploy very  
> simple web site scripts. As you move to improve Python for important  
> industrial strength web programming, why not also continue to support  
> quick and dirty web interactivity scripts?



> Ron Stephens



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> On Jan 4, 2011, at 7:53 AM, "PJ Eby" pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:



> > At 12:43 PM 1/4/2011 +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> >> Alice Bevan McGregor writes: > > [1] http:://bit.ly/e7rtI6 So, while  
> we are at it, could we get rid of the "CGI server example" in this new  
> SWGI spec? This is 2011, and we should promote modern idioms, not  
> encourage people to do 1995 Web programming. 10 years ago, CGI was  
> already frown upon. (and even the idea that WSGI should provide some kind  
> of CGI compatibility sounds a bit ridiculous to me) Regards Antoine.

> >

> > I still use CGI for the odd one-off, testing, prototyping, etc., and  
> it's by far the easiest thing to deploy on a lot of web hosts. Hell, even  
> Google App Engine *emulates* CGI in its default deployment configuration,  
> IIRC. So it's not exactly obsolete.

> >

> > Also, the main purpose of the example is to show what a web server  
> developer needs to do to hook up their own piping to provide WSGI  
> services... and most web server developers have something like CGI code  
> already lying around, or at least know what CGI looks like.

> >

> >

> >

> >

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