[Web-SIG] PEP 444 / WSGI 2 Async

Alice Bevan–McGregor alice at gothcandy.com
Fri Jan 7 23:38:40 CET 2011


On 2011-01-07 09:04:07 -0800, Antoine Pitrou said:
> WSGI doesn't mandate any specific feature of generators, such as 
> coroutine-like semantics, and the server doesn't have to know about 
> them.

The joy of writing a new specification is that we are not (potentially) 
shackled by old ways of doing things.  Case in point: dropping 
start_response and changing the return value.  PEP 444 isn't WSGI 1, 
and can change things, including additional changes to the allowable 
return value.

	- Alice.




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