Re: [Web-SIG] WSGI in standard library

2006-02-05 Thread Stephan Richter
On Saturday 04 February 2006 21:35, Peter Hunt wrote: > I think CherryPy's WSGI server should go in: it's stable, and the > best-performing WSGI HTTP server out there. Are you sure? Is it really scalable? Can you prove it? Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tuft

Re: [Web-SIG] WSGI in standard library

2006-02-05 Thread Alan Kennedy
[Peter Hunt] > I think CherryPy's WSGI server should go in: it's stable, and the > best-performing WSGI HTTP server out there. I disagree. I think that if a WSGI server is to go into the standard library, it should be the most basic one possible, e.g. one that builds on the *HttpServer.py hier

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Alan Kennedy
[Guido van Rossum] > I see. But doesn't this still tie the templates API rather strongly to > a web API? What if I want to use a template engine to generate > spam^H^H^H^Hpersonalized emails? Or static HTML pages that are written > to the filesystem and then served by a classic Apache setup? Or

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Phillip J. Eby
>I see. But doesn't this still tie the templates API rather strongly to >a web API? What if I want to use a template engine to generate >spam^H^H^H^Hpersonalized emails? Then set the content-type to message/rfc822. ;) > Or static HTML pages that are written >to the filesystem and then served

Re: [Web-SIG] WSGI in standard library

2006-02-05 Thread Guido van Rossum
> [Peter Hunt] > > I think CherryPy's WSGI server should go in: it's stable, and the > > best-performing WSGI HTTP server out there. [Alan Kennedy] > I disagree. > > I think that if a WSGI server is to go into the standard library, it > should be the most basic one possible, e.g. one that builds o

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 01:28 PM 2/5/2006 +, Alan Kennedy wrote: >I've been dismayed over the last few days trying to follow the direction >of this thread: it appears to me that something very simple has now >become very complex. On the contrary, the situation is and always has been very complex. It only appears

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Guido van Rossum
[Me] > > Or static HTML pages that are written > >to the filesystem and then served by a classic Apache setup? Or source > >code (program generators are fun toys!)? [Phillip] > Use the output file's write() method as the "write" callback returned by > start_response(), or use one of the wsgiref h

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 10:40 AM 2/5/2006 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: >[Me] > > > Or static HTML pages that are written > > >to the filesystem and then served by a classic Apache setup? Or source > > >code (program generators are fun toys!)? > >[Phillip] > > Use the output file's write() method as the "write" callb

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Ben Bangert
On Feb 5, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I didn't see an output file in the proposed standard. All I saw was a > WSGI interface. The output file is a figment of your implementation. The WSGI interface indicates that the WSGI app will return its output as an iterable. While WSGI wa

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Alan Kennedy
[Phillip J. Eby] > Developing WSGI was not easy, either, as I'm sure you recall.You and I > certainly argued a bit about iterators and file-like objects and such, > and it took a while before I understood all of your use cases and we > were able to resolve them in the spec. If you had given up

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Ben Bangert
> # Or use Kid: > kidengine = KidTemplate(**kid_args) > content, headers = kidengine('some.template.kid', wsgi=False) > > # web > return kidengine(environ, start_response) > > Or if people don't like relying on the object to determine if there's > a keyword with wsgi = False, > > content, headers =

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Ian Bicking
Phillip J. Eby wrote: >>This topic started with Buffet, the de-facto standard templating API for >>CherryPy. Buffet is just about textual templating, which is a good >>thing. That's why it's very simple, and is thus actually being used. > > > Which is precisely why we don't need to rush into bles

Re: [Web-SIG] My original template API proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Ian Bicking
Ian Bicking wrote: > def render(template_instance, vars, format="html", fragment=False): Here I can magically turn this into a WEB templating spec: def render(template_instance, vars, format="html", fragment=False, wsgi_environ=None, set_header_callback=None) wsgi_environ is the environ d

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Ian Bicking
Phillip J. Eby wrote: >>It is my strong preference that the standard API we are attempting to >>design here does *not* tie you strongly to WSGI or the generation of >>dynamic web content. > > > That seems to be a popular position, to be sure. However, since there is > already a de facto standar

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Ian Bicking
Ben Bangert wrote: >># Or use Kid: >>kidengine = KidTemplate(**kid_args) >>content, headers = kidengine('some.template.kid', wsgi=False) >> >># web >>return kidengine(environ, start_response) >> >>Or if people don't like relying on the object to determine if there's >>a keyword with wsgi = False, >

Re: [Web-SIG] My original template API proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 02:46 PM 2/5/2006 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: >Ian Bicking wrote: > > def render(template_instance, vars, format="html", fragment=False): > >Here I can magically turn this into a WEB templating spec: > >def render(template_instance, vars, format="html", fragment=False, >wsgi_environ=None, se

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 03:26 PM 2/5/2006 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: >Even the most trivial of web applications needs templates to include >other templates, so the fact that this doesn't do anything to aid or >specify that makes the spec feel leaky. I can indicate where the >template comes from initially, but all bets

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 02:36 PM 2/5/2006 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: >I think very minor fixes could improve it -- for instance, allow >template_filename as an argument instead of only template_name. Then at >least simple template filling would be handled well (e.g., enough for >Paste Script), though it is unlikely

Re: [Web-SIG] My original template API proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Ian Bicking
Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 02:46 PM 2/5/2006 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: > >> Ian Bicking wrote: >> > def render(template_instance, vars, format="html", >> fragment=False): >> >> Here I can magically turn this into a WEB templating spec: >> >> def render(template_instance, vars, format="html"

Re: [Web-SIG] My original template API proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Ian Bicking
Ian Bicking wrote: > Ian Bicking wrote: > >> def render(template_instance, vars, format="html", fragment=False): > > > Here I can magically turn this into a WEB templating spec: > > def render(template_instance, vars, format="html", fragment=False, > wsgi_environ=None, set_header_callbac

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Ian Bicking
Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 03:26 PM 2/5/2006 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: > >> Even the most trivial of web applications needs templates to include >> other templates, so the fact that this doesn't do anything to aid or >> specify that makes the spec feel leaky. I can indicate where the >> template

Re: [Web-SIG] My original template API proposal

2006-02-05 Thread James Y Knight
On Feb 5, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: > ``set_header_callback`` is a function that can be called > like > ``set_header_callback(header_name, header_value)``. > Arguments can only be strings (not unicode) [encode unicode > with ASCII?]. The header

Re: [Web-SIG] My original template API proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Ian Bicking
James Y Knight wrote: > On Feb 5, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: > >> ``set_header_callback`` is a function that can be called like >> ``set_header_callback(header_name, header_value)``. >> Arguments can only be strings (not unicode) [encode unicode >>

Re: [Web-SIG] My original template API proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 2/5/06, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect most templates will buffer their output internally, unless > somehow configured or dynamically set not to do so. Why would they? Isn't that a function that the web server typically does? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pyt

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 2/5/06, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * There was an ad hoc standardization happening with TG and Buffet. > > * Other people were becoming interested. > > * Discussion was happening on the TG list, where most people on the TG > list were not particularly interested about this sort of

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Michael Bayer
On Feb 5, 2006, at 5:33 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > As Ben has previously pointed out, systems like Myghty are going to > ignore > your 'find_template()' because they do their own finding. So the > spec will > leak no matter what, until we get to the level of specification > called for > b

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-05 Thread Ian Bicking
Michael Bayer wrote: > Im not totally following every detail of this discussionbut correct > me if I'm wrong, if we are just talking about a specification of how > the various components of a template engine are to look and interact > with each other, there is no reason Myghty's resolver