[Web-SIG] WSGI and asyncio (tulip)?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:40:05 +1300
Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On 15 October 2014 07:30, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:47:35 -0700
> > Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm wondering if a small extension to the WSGI protocol might be sufficient
> >> to support this: the special environ variable "wsgi.async_input" could
> >> optionally be tied to a standard asyncio stream reader (
> >> https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-stream.html#streamreader), from
> >> which bytes can be read using "yield from stream.read([nbytes])" or "yield
> >> from stream.readline()".
> >
> > I think it would be frankly better to hook at the transport/protocol
> > level, and let people wrap that inside an asyncio stream if that's their
> > preference.
> 
> For things like mod_wsgi and uwsgi, we're not actually implementing
> the transport or protocol inside of Python at all - its all happening
> in C and often in an entirely separate process.

You may have misunderstood me. I am talking about the Transport and
Protocol abstractions defined in PEP 3156.

Regards

Antoine.