[meta-sig] Another try at a Python Web SIG?

[Stefan Drees]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:19:25PM -0500 - a wonderful day 
				- Ian Bicking wrote:
> On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 03:53 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
> >I know this was just discussed a few months ago, but I'm very
> >interested in getting a Web SIG together or reinvigorated or whatever
> >it takes.  The current Web support in Python is somewhat embarassingly
> >patchy, given the neatness of the rest of the system.
> ...
> >My specific thinking is about three things:
> >
> >1)  Add SSL server-side support to the "socket" module.  This will
> >    include some way of managing certificates.  Probably modelled
> >    strongly after the way we did it in ILU, if I do it :-).
that sounds interesting to me too.

> ...
> 
> There's a lot of people interested in this, I think -- but it's 
> challenging because it's somewhat political, and cooperation probably 
> isn't likely in some areas (specifically the aesthetics of implementing 
> a web application).  But I'd really like to see more cooperation and 
> commonality on lower-level Python web programming, where there's a lot 
> fewer people with strong opinions.
+1
Yes, this would be a shift in direction I'd love to support. 


All the best,
		Stefan Drees.
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