[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jun 23 23:35:12 CEST 2010


On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:30:22 -0400
Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Note that this assumption seems optimistic to me.  I started talking to Graham
> Dumpleton, author of mod_wsgi a couple years back because mod_wsgi and paste
> do decoding of bytes to unicode at different layers which caused problems
> for application level code that should otherwise run fine when being served
> by mod_wsgi or paste httpserver.  That was the beginning of Graham starting
> to talk about what the wsgi spec really should look like under python3
> instead of the broken way that the appendix to the current wsgi spec states.

Ok, but the reason would be that the WSGI spec is broken. Not Python 3
itself.

Regards

Antoine.


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