[Python-Dev] PEP 3333: wsgi_string() function

[Bill Janssen]

P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> Right.  Also, it should be mentioned that none of this would be
> necessary if we could've gotten a "bytes of a known encoding" type.

Indeed!  Or even "string using a known encoding"...

> If you look back to the last big Python-Dev discussion on
> bytes/unicode and stdlib API breakage, this was the holdup for getting
> a sane WSGI spec.

Yep.

Bill