[Web-SIG] A more useful command-line wsgiref.simple_server?

[Geoffrey Spear]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Masklinn <masklinn at masklinn.net> wrote:
> 2. You seem to have asserted from the start that the default should be
>   mounting modules, but I have seen no evidence or argument in favor of
>   that so far.
>
>   Defaulting to scripts not only works with both local modules and
>   arbitrary files and follow cpython's (and most tools's) own behavior,
>   but would also allows using -mwsgiref.simple_server as a shebang
>   line. I find this to have quite a lot of value.

I may be dense, but is there actually a use case for using a WSGI
application from a script? Presumably a script that defines a WSGI
application would also run it.