[Web-SIG] [Python-Dev] Add PEP 444, Python Web3 Interface.

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Thu Sep 16 03:31:31 CEST 2010


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
> It's, e.g.
>
> b'8080'
>
> .. instead of the integer value 8080.
>
> Apparently the type of this value was not spelled out sufficiently in
> the WSGI spec and string values and integer values were used
> interchangeably, making it harder to join them with the other values in
> the environ (a common thing to want to do).  Bytes instances are
> attractive, as the rest of the values are also bytes, so they can be
> joined together easily.

If this is to be "standard" - that is the SERVER_PORT be specified as
bytes representing the numerical port (tcp)
then I support this. In the case of unix sockets it could be a null
byte string, eg: b""

cheers
james


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