To me, asyncio already provides a de-facto standard API for asynchronous backends and Tornado/Twisted provide a high level API on top of it. I have to say, I don't precisely grasp what WSGI actually wishes to bring to the table.
I guess if we're really talking about this, the lowest common denominator is a set of cognizable abstractions for HttpRequest and HttpResponse, right? On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Sylvain Hellegouarch <s...@defuze.org> wrote: > Hi, > > 2014-10-14 18:47 GMT+02:00 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: >> >> >> >> I'm wondering if a small extension to the WSGI protocol might be >> sufficient to support this: the special environ variable "wsgi.async_input" >> could optionally be tied to a standard asyncio stream reader >> (https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-stream.html#streamreader), from >> which bytes can be read using "yield from stream.read([nbytes])" or "yield >> from stream.readline()". >> > > If we support async backends by simply escaping WSGI, don't you feel it kind > of make most of the whole discussion moot? > > To me, asyncio already provides a de-facto standard API for asynchronous > backends and Tornado/Twisted provide a high level API on top of it. I have > to say, I don't precisely grasp what WSGI actually wishes to bring to the > table. > > As I said in a different thread, most frameworks seem eager to wrap the > environ dictionary and hide away all of the WSGI internals (wasting CPU > cycles in the process). Is there rationale for continuining down that road? > > -- > - Sylvain > http://www.defuze.org > http://twitter.com/lawouach > > _______________________________________________ > Web-SIG mailing list > Web-SIG@python.org > Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/justin%40justinholmes.com > -- jMyles Holmes Chief Chocobo Breeder, slashRoot slashRoot: Coffee House and Tech Dojo New Paltz, NY 12561 845.633.8330 _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
