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

[Robert Brewer]

Ian Bicking wrote:
> 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 for 1.  What other clarifications were you thinking of?

PLEASE don't ask, don't tell. Let's not complicate this change by
conflating it with others yet again.


Robert Brewer
fumanchu at aminus.org