[Web-SIG] PEP 444 feature request - Futures executor

[P.J. Eby]

At 09:11 PM 1/10/2011 -0600, Timothy Farrell wrote:
>PJ,
>
>You seem to be old-hat at this so I'm looking for a little advise as 
>I draft this spec.  It seems a bad idea to me to just say 
>environ['wsgi.executor'] will be a wrapped futures executor because 
>the api handled by the executor can and likely will change over 
>time.  Am I write in thinking that a spec should be more specific in 
>saying that the executor object will have "these specific methods" 
>and so as future changes, the spec is not in danger of invalidation 
>due to the changes?

I'd actually just suggest something like:

     future = environ['wsgiorg.future'](func, *args, **kw)

(You need to use the wsgiorg.* namespace for extension proposals like 
this, btw.)