[Python-Dev] WSGI is now Python 3-friendly

[Guido van Rossum]

This is a very laudable initiative and I approve of the changes -- but
I really think it ought to be a separate PEP rather than pretending it
is just a set of textual corrections on the existing PEP 333.

--Guido

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:56 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> I have only done the Python 3-specific changes at this point; the diff is
> here if anybody wants to review, nitpick or otherwise comment:
>
>  http://svn.python.org/view/peps/trunk/pep-0333.txt?r1=85014&r2=85013&pathrev=85014
>
> For that matter, if anybody wants to take a crack at updating Python 3's
> wsgiref based on the above, feel free.  ;-)  I'll be happy to answer any
> questions I can that come up in the process.
>
> (Please note: I went with Ian Bicking's "headers are strings, bodies are
> bytes" proposal, rather than my original "bodies and outputs are bytes" one,
> as there were not only some good arguments in its favor, but because it also
> resulted in fewer changes to the PEP, especially in the code samples.)
>
> I will continue to work on adding the other addenda/errata mentioned here:
>
>  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/web-sig/2010-September/004655.html
>
> But because these are "shoulds" rather than musts, and apply to both Python
> 2 and 3, they are not as high priority for immediate implementation in
> wsgiref and do not necessarily need to hold up the 3.2 release.
>
> (Nonetheless, if anybody is willing to implement them in the Python 3
> version, I will happily review the changes for backport into the Python 2
> standalone version of wsgiref, and issue an updated release to include
> them.)
>
> Thanks!
>
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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)