[Web-SIG] WSGI in standard library

[Alan Kennedy]

[Ian Bicking]
> Note that the scope of a WSGI server is very very limited.  It is quite 
> distinct from an XMLRPC server from that perspective -- an XMLRPC server 
> actually *does* something.  A WSGI server does nothing but delegate.

and

> I'm not set on "production" quality code, but I think the general 
> sentiment against that is entirely premature.  The implementations 
> brought up -- CherryPy's 
> (http://svn.cherrypy.org/trunk/cherrypy/_cphttpserver.py) and Paste's 
> (http://svn.pythonpaste.org/Paste/trunk/paste/httpserver.py) and 
> wsgiref's 
> (http://cvs.eby-sarna.com/wsgiref/src/wsgiref/simple_server.py?rev=1.2&view=markup) 
> are all pretty short.  It would be better to discuss the particulars. Is 
> there a code path in one or more of these servers which you think is 
> unneeded and problematic?

A few points.

1. My opinion is not relevant to whether/which WSGI server goes into the 
standard library. What's required is for someone to propose to 
python-dev that a particular WSGI server should go into the standard 
library. I imagine that the response on python-dev to the proposer is 
going to be along the lines of "Will you be maintaining this?" If/when 
python-dev is happy, then it'll go into the distribution.

2. What's wrong with leaving the current situation as-is, i.e. the 
available WSGI implementations are listed on the WSGI Moin page

http://wiki.python.org/moin/WSGIImplementations

3. If I had to pick one of the 3 you suggested, I'd pick the last one, 
i.e. PJE's, because it fulfills exactly the criteria I listed

  - It's pretty much the simplest possible implementation, meaning it's 
easiest to understand.
  - It's based on the existing *HttpServer hierarchy
  - It's got a big notice at the top saying """This is both an example 
of how WSGI can be implemented, and a basis for running simple web 
applications on a local machine, such as might be done when testing or 
debugging an application.  It has not been reviewed for security issues, 
however, and we strongly recommend that you use a "real" web server for 
production use."""

Regards,

Alan.