[Web-SIG] Revising environ['wsgi.input'].readline in the WSGI specification

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:49 PM 11/17/2008 +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote:
>Ian Bicking ha scritto:
>>[...]
>>We need to propose a change to the WSGI specification.  I propose, 
>>in "Input and Error Streams" 
>>(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/#input-and-error-streams) 
>>we change it to have "readline(hint)" and expand Note 3 to include 
>>readline as well as readlines, removing Note 2.  Also I suppose 
>>some sort of change note in the specification?
>>Does this sound like a sufficient change to the spec, and are there 
>>any objections to the change?
>
>Fine for me, but of course we need to do this as:
>1) Errata to WSGI 1.0
>or
>2) WSGI 1.1
>or
>3) WSGI 2.0
>
>You can't just modify the current WSGI 1.0 spec.
>
>I'm for 2), with the other clarifications about WSGI we have 
>discussed in the past.

I'm more inclined towards #1.  But in any event we need to get 
clearer about how the amendment or erratum will be phrased.