[Python-Dev] [Web-SIG] WSGI is now Python 3-friendly (original) (raw)

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun Sep 26 19:33:44 CEST 2010

At 08:20 AM 9/26/2010 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I'm happy approving Final status for the original PEP 333 and I'm happy to approve a new PEP which includes PJE's corrections.

Can we make it PEP 3333, then? ;-)

That number would at least communicate that it's the same thing, but for Python 3.

Really, my reason for trying to do the (non Py3-specific) amendments in a way that didn't require a new PEP number was because of the many ancillary questions that it raises for the community, such as:

To be fair, I also wanted to avoid all the work associated with answering them. ;-) (Heck, I really wanted to avoid the work of having to even think about which questions might arise and how they'd need to be addressed.)

OTOH, I can certainly see that my attempt to avoid this has already failed: it simply brought up a different set of questions, just on Python-Dev instead of Web-SIG or Python-list.

Oh well. Perhaps making the numbering appear to be a continuation will help a bit.

Another option would be to make a PEP that consists solely of the amendments and errata themselves, as this would answer most of the above questions directly.

Still another would be to abandon the effort to amend the PEP, and simply leave things as they are now: AFAICT, the fact that these amendments aren't in the PEP hasn't stopped anybody from treating most of them as if they were. (Because everyone understands that failure to follow them constitutes a bug in your program, even if it technically complies with the spec.)

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