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

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Tue May 21 13:37:06 EDT 2019

http.server is used in pydoc:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/ccb7ca728e09b307f9e9fd36ec40353137e68a3b/Lib/pydoc.py#L2236

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 10:12:50AM -0700, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

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. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him/his **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>

Oleg.

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