[Web-SIG] Future of WSGI

[Sylvain Hellegouarch]

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> I'm not aware of any problems with representing the request with a 
> dictionary.  Can you give examples?

Though it shouldn't be considered as a problem, the fact that probably 
no existing framework actually use the raw dictionary (there is, in 
almost all cases, a wrapping into a friendlier object), one might wonder 
why keeping such a low level interface rather than directly provide a 
higher level interface is a good idea. After all creating those 
dictionaries for no good reason aside from sending them to the next 
layer which will map them into a WebOb, a yaro, a cherrypy request, or 
zope request, etc. seems slightly pointless (I'm not versed into Python 
internals, but doesn't it have also a cost of creating rather useless 
objects repeatedly like that?) I know WSGI tries hard not to force into 
one implementation but still...

- Sylvain