[Python-Dev] PEP 3333: wsgi_string() function

[Michael Foord]

On 10/01/2011 17:24, Ian Bicking wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull 
> <stephen at xemacs.org <mailto:stephen at xemacs.org>> wrote:
>
>     Robert Brewer writes:
>
>     > Python 3.1 was released June 27th, 2009. We're coming up faster
>     on the
>     > two-year period than we seem to be on a revised WSGI spec. Maybe we
>     > should shoot for a "bytes of a known encoding" type first.
>
>     You have one.  It's called "ISO 2022: Information processing -- ISO
>     7-bit and 8-bit coded character sets -- Code extension techniques".
>     The popularity of that standard speaks for itself.
>
>
> The kind of object PJE was referring to is more like Ruby's strings, 
> which do not embed the encoding inside the bytes themselves but have 
> the encoding as a kind of annotation on the bytes, and do lazy 
> transcoding when combining strings of different encodings.  The goal 
> with respect to WSGI is that you could annotate bytes with an encoding 
> but also change or fix that encoding if other out-of-band information 
> implied that you got the encoding wrong (e.g., some data is submitted 
> with the encoding of the page the browser was on, and so nothing 
> inside the request itself will indicate the encoding of the data).  
> Latin1 is kind of the poor man's version of this -- it's a good guess 
> at an encoding, that at worst requires transcoding that can be done in 
> a predictable way.  (Personally I think Latin1 gets us 99% of the way 
> there, and so bytes-of-a-known-encoding are not really that important 
> to the WSGI case.)
>

I think the language moratorium was not the only objection to the 
inclusion of a third string type in Python (the "screwed string" - safe 
to treat neither as bytes nor as text). I recall objections in principle 
too from core developers during the EuroPython language summit.

Michael

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