[Python-Dev] bytes / unicode

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:35:12PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 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.
> 
Agreed.  Neither python2 nor python3 is broken.  It's the wsgi spec and the
implementation of that spec where things fall down.  From your first post,
I thought you were claiming that python3 was broken since web frameworks got
decoding right on python2 and I just wanted to defend python3 by showing
that python2 wasn't all sunshine and roses.

-Toshio
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