Re: [Web-SIG] Move to bless Graham's WSGI 1.1 as official spec

2009-12-04 Thread Manlio Perillo
Henry Precheur ha scritto: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 07:40:55PM +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote: >> What are the functions that does not works with byte strings? > > Just to make things clear, I was talking about Python 3. > I know. Unfortunately I don't have installed Python 3, I'm just reading th

Re: [Web-SIG] Move to bless Graham's WSGI 1.1 as official spec

2009-12-04 Thread Henry Precheur
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 07:40:55PM +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote: > What are the functions that does not works with byte strings? Just to make things clear, I was talking about Python 3. All the functions I tried not ending with _from_bytes raise an exception with bytes. This includes urllib.parse.

Re: [Web-SIG] Move to bless Graham's WSGI 1.1 as official spec

2009-12-04 Thread Manlio Perillo
Henry Precheur ha scritto: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:17:09AM +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote: >> It is just as simple as using byte strings, IMHO. > > No, it's not. There were lots of dicussions regarding this on the > mailing list. One of the main issue is that the standard library > supports byte

Re: [Web-SIG] Move to bless Graham's WSGI 1.1 as official spec

2009-12-04 Thread Henry Precheur
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:17:09AM +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote: > It is just as simple as using byte strings, IMHO. No, it's not. There were lots of dicussions regarding this on the mailing list. One of the main issue is that the standard library supports bytes poorly. urllib for example expects s

Re: [Web-SIG] Move to bless Graham's WSGI 1.1 as official spec

2009-12-04 Thread Manlio Perillo
And Clover ha scritto: > Manlio Perillo wrote: > >> Words of *TEXT MAY contain characters from character sets other than >> ISO-8859-1 [22] only when encoded according to the rules of RFC 2047 > > Yeah, this is, unfortunately, a lie. The rules of RFC 2047 apply only to > RFC*822-family 'atoms' an

Re: [Web-SIG] Move to bless Graham's WSGI 1.1 as official spec

2009-12-04 Thread Manlio Perillo
Henry Precheur ha scritto: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:15:06PM +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote: >> There is something that I don't understand. >> >> Some HTTP headers, like Accept-Language, contains data described as >> `token`, where: >> >> token = 1* >> >> So a token, IMHO, is an opaque str