P.J. Eby wrote: > At 09:43 AM 1/7/2011 -0500, James Y Knight wrote: > >On Jan 7, 2011, at 6:51 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > > > I don't understand why you are attached to this horrible hack > > > (bytes-in-unicode). It introduces more work and more confusing than > > > using raw bytes unchanged. > > > > > > It doesn't work and so something has to be changed. > > > >It's gross but it does work. This has been discussed ad-nausium on > >web-sig over a period of years. > > > >I'd like to reiterate that it is only even a potential issue for the > >PATH_INFO/SCRIPT_NAME keys. Those two keys are required to have been > >urldecoded already, into byte-data in some encoding. For all the > >other keys (including the ones from os.environ), they are either > >*properly* decoded in 8859-1 or are just ascii (possibly still > >urlencoded, so the app needs to urldecode and decode into a string > >with the correct encoding). > > Right. Also, it should be mentioned that none of this would be > necessary if we could've gotten a "bytes of a known encoding" > type. If you look back to the last big Python-Dev discussion on > bytes/unicode and stdlib API breakage, this was the holdup for > getting a sane WSGI spec. > > Since we couldn't change the language to fix the problem (due to the > moratorium), we had to use this less-pleasant way of dealing with > things, in order to get a final WSGI spec for Python 3. > > (If anybody is wondering about the specifics of the language change > that was needed, it'd be having a "bytes with known encoding" type, > that when combined in any polymorphic operation with a unicode > string, would result in bytes-with-encoding output, and would raise > an error if the resulting value could not be encoded in the target > encoding. Then we would simply do all WSGI header operations with > this type, using latin-1 as the target encoding.)
Still looking forward to the day when that moratorium is lifted. Anyone have any idea when that will be? Bob _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com