On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:44:53 +0100
Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> wrote:
> def wsgi_string(u):
> # Convert an environment variable to a WSGI "bytes-as-unicode"
> string
> return u.encode(enc, esc).decode('iso-8859-1')
>
> def run_with_cgi(application):
> environ = {k: wsgi_string(v) for k,v in os.environ.items()}
> environ['wsgi.input'] = sys.stdin
> environ['wsgi.errors'] = sys.stderr
> environ['wsgi.version'] = (1, 0)
> ...
> --------------
>
> What is this horrible encoding "bytes-as-unicode"? os.environ is
> supposed to be correctly decoded and contain valid unicode characters.
> If WSGI uses another encoding than the locale encoding (which is a bad
> idea), it should use os.environb and decodes keys and values using its
> own encoding.
>
> If you really want to store bytes in unicode, str is not the right type:
> use the bytes type and use os.environb instead.
+1. We should minimize such reencoding dances, and avoid promoting them.
Regards
Antoine.
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