2 cents on file objects... WAS: RE: [Web-SIG] Bill's comments on WSGI draft 1.4

[Bill Janssen]

> 1. The write callable is only there to support "push" applications, 
> where the application generates output and then pushes it through a 
> channel set-up by the server/framework, thus relegating the framework to 
> a kind of dumb switchboard. This sort of design is usually used in 
> threaded servers, which can present scalability problems.

It's also heavily used in CGI scripts.

Bill