WSGI

Python-specific Web Server Gateway Interface - alternative to CGI.

http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0333.html

reference Wiki http://wsgi.org/wsgi

a way to integrate apps written in different Python Web Framework-s?

• deployment: Apache with mod_wsgi (Mod Wsgi)
• update: recommended method is probably to run with UWsgi behind NginX.

by Phillip J Eby - WSGI in itself is just a Python encoding of HTTP, nothing more

list of implementations

• Guido Van Rossum is supporting (Feb14'2006) using Phillip J Eby's implementation in the Python standard library
  • Alan Kennedy compares it to Python Paste and CherryPy components as alternative candidates (though he was looking at the wrong chunk of CherryPy code)

Les Orchard is a fan - I realized that it also makes web apps composable... I think one of the reasons I've been so taken with WSGI is that it's not another damn FrameWork.

• related comment by Ian Bicking
• related anti-FrameWork rant by Andy Smith

Mike Orr article: http://linuxgazette.net/115/orr.html

related: Python Paste

Allan Saddi's flup package provides utilities, including adaptors for FastCGI and SCGI.