On 6 Dec 2007, at 18:13, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > In Python 3 the default for string type objects will effectively be > Unicode. Is WSGI going to be made to somehow cope with that, or will > application instead be required to return byte string objects instead?
I'd say it would be best to only accept `bytes` objects; anything else would require some guesswork. Maybe, at most, it could try to encode returned Unicode objects as ISO-8859-1, and have it be an error if that's not possible. I was going to say that the gateway could accept Unicode objects if the user-agent sent a comprehensible Accept-Charset header, and thereby encode application output to the client's preferred character set on the fly (or to ISO-8859-1 if no Accept-Charset is provided), but that would complicate things for people writing gateways (and would be too implicit). It could be useful, but it would make more sense as a simple decorator for (almost-)WSGI applications. Perhaps it could go in wsgiref. _______________________________________________ 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
