[Web-SIG] Clarifications on Python 3.0 and WSGI.
Ian Bicking
ianb at colorstudy.com
Tue Mar 25 17:41:40 CET 2008
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 11:04 AM 3/25/2008 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>> It says that in versions of Python where 'str is unicode' (i.e.
>>> Jython, IronPython, and Python 3000), then the specification should
>>> be read to define "string" as a unicode string whose characters can
>>> be expressed in latin-1.
>>> Really, adding support for bytes is the stretch here. In fact, I'd
>>> almost go so far as to say the heck with bytes support except for the
>>> response body. I could easily consider headers to be text, instead.
>>
>> Latin-1? How is this supposed to work at all?
>
> Latin-1 is the encoding that can allow a unicode string to losslessly
> encode arbitrary bytes. And that's how these things are handled (or
> should be handled, per the spec) in Jython and IronPython today.
>
> In any case I only said I'd *almost* go so far as to say headers are
> text. :)
Are you proposing that we use a Latin-1 encoded string to hold bytes?
Isn't that kind of a step backwards in keeping unicode and text straight?
Ian
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