[Web-SIG] Request for Comments on upcoming WSGI Changes

James Bennett ubernostrum at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 08:58:12 CEST 2009


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Armin Ronacher
<armin.ronacher at active-4.com> wrote:
> If it was just that I would be happy to stay with bytes.  But unless the
> standard library changes in the way it works on Python 3 there is not
> much but unicode we can use.  bytes no longer behave like strings, it's
> not very comfortable to work with them.

Indeed. Hence my comments about WSGI leaking up into other code. Now
that bytes and strings are incompatible, a lot of code which relied on
(arguably) a wart in Python will break.


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