On 15:43 Thu 03 Feb , Ian Bicking wrote:
> True, to the degree that the software was written with this in mind.
> Because Webware isn't one-process-per-request it has to be more
> abstract. For instance, how would you dispatch on a virtual host in
> Webware? You could if you allowed for callable values, I suppose, like:
>
> # normally:
> #root = '/myapp/'
> def root(trans):
> return os.path.join('/myapp/vhost/',
> trans.request().environ()['HTTP_HOST'])
>
> This isn't really possible with wsgikit.config; if this kind of per-host
> configuration was predicted you could do fixed locations like:
>
> [vhost(app.number1.com)]
> root = /myapp/vhost/app.number1.com/
>
> Or if you anticipated variable substitution you could do:
>
> root = /myapp/vhost/${HTTP_HOST}/
Good point.
> One thing Python files aren't particularly good at is hierarchical
> configuration. You can create dictionaries, and they are okay. You can
> overload class statements, but then you have to support both dictionary
> and attribute access (or should everything be attribute-based?)
Let's stay away from overloading classes for the purpose of
configuration. That's just one more thing to comprehend and document.
> >>In some ways it bothers me because it's a bit complicated, but each
> >>point of complication is also a feature I think would be really
> >>useful, so it's hard to say.
> >
> >
> >Importing a file like config.py is simple if we think of it as a place
> >to define environment variables.
>
> One nuisance is the importing process. Actually... not a huge nuisance.
> But I much prefer doing it through exec instead of import, because
> importing from arbitrary files is such a pain and has a lot of
> subtleties that just aren't necessary to introduce for this.
Doesn't matter to me.
>
> Part of me thinks that servlets and PSP files should work the same way,
> to avoid the ambiguity of file or packages.
Are we interested in integrating PSP with WSGIKit? I currenly use PSP
for templating, but Cheetah is better for that.
Eric
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