P.J. Eby wrote: > At 07:57 AM 9/21/2009 +0200, Armin Ronacher wrote: > >Chris McDonough schrieb: > > > Personally, I find it a bit hard to get excited about Python 3 as a > > > web application deployment platform. > > Everybody feels that way currently. But if we don't fix WSGI that > > will never change. > > This is only compounding the errors introduced by the "make the tests > pass" philosophy of "porting" the stdlib. We should not make them > worse. > > At the moment (AFAIK) nobody has gone through the web bits of the > stdlib and asked, "Should this work on strings, bytes, or both, and > if both, how should that API be expressed?"
Perhaps not, but I wrote unquote_bytes at PyCon 2009, after discussing urllib in the python-dev room and being told no bytes-compatible version was desired in the stdlib. So *some* thought has gone into it. Robert Brewer fuman...@aminus.org _______________________________________________ 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
