cgi.FieldStorage() is slow

[Steve Holden]

Nehal wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:40:17 -0500
> Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>The cgi module is a confusing mess of code munged, over the
>>years, by many hands. It would take a brave programmer to plunge
>>in and do what's necessary.
>>
>>not-brave-enough-ly y'rs  - steve
> 
> if i were to do it, could i rewrite the functions in the cgi
> module?, or would i need to keep the same functions for backward
> compatibility?
> -- Nehal
> 
> 
Well, code breakage is regarded as pretty bad, so you would need to 
retain the same interfaces that the module supports now.

Of course you could implement them completely differently, as long as 
they worked the same, and you could add new interfaces as well.

regards
  Steve
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