On 30 August 2010 11:02, Ian Bicking <i...@colorstudy.com> wrote: > Ugh... why are we back at bytes again?
Because no official decision, by way of a vote or even consensus, has ever been made, the bytes option never goes away. The problem with bytes, before one even tries to compare it to text/unicode option, is that there is no clear description of what is meant by the bytes option. For all I can see, there are potentially multiple interpretations of what is meant by bytes. Although I almost begged that if we are going to discuss bytes, compared to text/unicode, that agreement at least first be made about the definition of the bytes leaning option, that request has pretty well fallen on death ears. Thus the discussion yet again is going the direction of just dithering with a lot of navel gazing and not much else. As I brought up almost two years ago, if we are going to make any progress on this, we are probably going to have a core group of people nominated who can officially make the decision of what is done based on a proper vote. This will be the only way there is going to be any sort of acceptance of a decision. This idea that we can reach a consensus just isn't working. Graham > I don't know of any concrete > problems with using Latin1 (basically how mod_wsgi works). It would be nice > to try out some tricky cases -- cookie parsing, HTTP proxies, > output-modifying middleware, a few other cases. But I don't see a reason to > expect they won't work. It also doesn't feel particularly *wrong*. The > parsed portions of the request and response are mostly ASCII anyway, and the > exceptions generally require wonky code anyway so a little transcoding isn't > so bad. > > -- > Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.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/graham.dumpleton%40gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ 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
