P.J. Eby wrote: > At 03:06 PM 9/20/2009 +0200, Armin Ronacher wrote: > >The following things became pretty clear when playing around with > >various specifications on Python 3: > > > >- Python 3 no longer implicitly converts between unicode and byte > > strings. This covers comparisons, the regular expression engine, > > all string functions and many modules in the stdlib. > >- The Python 3 stdlib radically moved to unicode for non unicode > things > > as well (the http servers, http clients, url handling etc.) > > > >- A byte only version of WSGI appears unrealistic on Python 3 because > > it would require server and middleware implementors to reimplement > > parts of the standard library to work on bytes again. > > IMO, this strongly suggests that it's the stdlib or Python 3 that's > broken here. How much of the stdlib are we talking about needing to > reimplement, aside from cgi.FieldStorage?
urllib.unquote, for one. We had to make a version which accepts bytes (and outputs bytes). But it's only 8 lines of code. Robert Brewer fuman...@aminus.org _______________________________________________ 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
