Various small changes; still not complete...

pep-0222.txt

@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ Proposed Changes
     this PEP, this section should be empty, as all the changes should
     be classified as accepted or rejected.
 
-    fcgi.py : A new module adding support for the FastCGI protocol
+    fcgi.py : A new module adding support for the FastCGI protocol.
+    Robin Dunn's code needs to be ported to Windows, though.
 
     Better debugging support for CGIs from the Unix command line.
     Using Perl's CGI.pm [1], if you run a script from the command
@@ -51,8 +52,6 @@ Proposed Changes
     And even if we did, that would mean creating yet another object
     with its __init__ call and associated overhead.
 
-    cgi.py: Delete the references to self.lines for file uploads
-
     cgi.py: Ideally, the pseudo-dictionary syntax would go away. It
     seems to me that the main reason it is there is to accomodate
 
@@ -73,12 +72,6 @@ Proposed Changes
     means that when someone refers to "the form" you aren't always
     sure what they are talking about.
 
-    cgi.py: Allow a combination of query data and POST data.
-    Currently, if there is POST data, then any query data encoded in
-    the URL is ignored.  It would be more convenient if the data from
-    those two sources were merged into one dictionary. (XXX but is
-    this standard at all?)
-
     cgi.py: Currently, query data with no `=' are ignored.  Even if
     keep_blank_values is set, queries like `...?value=&...' are
     returned with blank values but queries like `...?value&...' are
@@ -91,9 +84,6 @@ Proposed Changes
     Higher-level frameworks: add something like Webware or Zope's
     HTTPReqest/HTTPResponse objects.
 
-    An HTML templating module.  (But which one?  There's no clear, or
-    even vague, indication of which templating module to enshrine.)
-
     Dictionary-related utility classes: NoKeyErrors (returns an empty
     string, never a KeyError), PartialStringSubstitution (returns 
     the original key string, never a KeyError)
@@ -129,8 +119,16 @@ Rejected Changes
     rationale is given describing why the change was deemed
     inappropriate.
 
-    * None yet
+    * An HTML generation module is not part of this PEP.  Several such
+      modules exist, ranging from HTMLgen's purely programming
+      interface to ASP-inspired simple templating to DTML's complex
+      templating.  There's no indication of which templating module to
+      enshrine in the standard library, and that probably means that
+      no module should be so chosen.
 
+    * cgi.py: Allowing a combination of query data and POST data.
+      This doesn't seem to be standard at all, and therefore is
+      dubious practice.
 
 Proposed Interface
 
@@ -138,6 +136,8 @@ Proposed Interface
     no interface for file uploads yet; need to look at all the various 
     packages to see if there's anything else missing; need to look at 
     the cgi.parse*() functions and see if they can be simplified, too.
+
+    XXX file uploads
         
     Parsing functions: carry over most of the parse* functions from cgi.py