On Dec 6, 2007 5:45 PM, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:27 PM 12/6/2007 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >You might want to look at how the unittests for wsgiref manage to pass > >in Py3k though. ;-) > > Unless they've been changed, I'd assume it's because they work with > strings exclusively, and never do any encoding or decoding (which is > outside WSGI's scope, at least in the current version).
Indeed, that seems mostly to be the case. But this means that any application that wants to emit characters outside Latin-1 cannot just encode() those characters, since the encode() output will be bytes and those will not be accepted by the WSGI API. OTOH sending non-Latin-1 characters without encoding would violate the standard. So something needs to give... -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
