[Python-Dev] PEP 594: Removing dead batteries from the standard library (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue May 21 13:12:50 EDT 2019

I still like http.server for quick temporary hacks where I want to be able to point a browser at some code I wrote 5 minutes ago and that I plan to discard in an hour. Usually it's running at localhost:8000. Remembering how to use Django, flask or Tornado seems overkill for that purpose.

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:39 AM Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:

On 5/20/2019 2:20 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:

On 20/05/2019 23.12, Andrew Svetlov wrote: socketserver.py is also questionable I briefly though about the module, but didn't consider it for removal. The http.server, xmlrpc.server, and logging configuration server are implemented on top of the socketserver. I don't want to remove the socketserver module without a suitable replacement for http.server in the standard library.

But http.server could be on the remove list too... it gets mighty little support, has very little functionality, and implements a CGI interface (although that also has very little functionality), and you have the CGI tools on the remove list, rendering the CGI interface implemented by http.server less easily usable. Further, it doesn't directly support https:, and browsers are removing/reducing support for http:. I can't speak to xmlrpc or logging configuration.

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