Armin Ronacher wrote:
Basically *the* problematic situation with iterable strings is something like a `flatten` function that flattens out every iterable object except of strings.
To flesh out the span of your "something like", recently I had a WSGI-based app that to some request mistakenly returned a 200K string instead of the same wrapped as a 1-element list; and the WSGI layer -according to spec- served it back character by character. Which "worked" - and durably confused not only me but IIS and a network router as well.
While blame can certainly be assigned elsewhere - WSGI spec or implementation (wsgiref included) - unwelcome iterability of strings was a necessary cause.
Cheers, BB _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
