[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

[Tres Seaver]

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Bill Janssen wrote:

> The bigger problem seems to be that we're revisiting the design
> discussion about urllib.parse from the summer of 2008.  See
> http://bugs.python.org/issue3300 if you want to recall how we hashed
> this out 2 years ago.  I didn't particularly like that design, but I had
> to go off on vacation :-), and things got settled while I was away.  I
> haven't heard much from Matt Giuca since he stopped by and lobbed that
> patch into the standard library.
> 
> But since Guido is the one who settled it, why are we talking about it
> again?

Perhaps such decisions need revisiting in light of subsequent experience
/ pain / learning.  E.g:

- - the repeated inability of the web-sig to converge on appropriate
  semantics for a Python3-compatible version of the WSGI spec;

- - the subsequent quirkiness of the Python3 wsgiref implementation;

- - the breakage in cgi.py which prevents handling file uploads in a
  web application;

- - the slow adoption / porting rate of major web frameworks and libraries
  to Python 3.



Tres.
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