Python finally offloads some batteries

Posted Mar 18, 2022 7:03 UTC (Fri) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: Python finally offloads some batteries by cjwatson
Parent article: Python finally offloads some batteries

>cgi.FieldStorage is so broken as to be a snare and a delusion, so I'm glad they're removing it.

It works just fine for me.
What's broken with it?

I'm not against removing unused or rarely used modules.
But removing those widely used modules, like cgi, is going to cause major waste of developer time in the order of hundreds of thousands of hours. That's not Ok and it will hurt Python's reputation. Again.

Python finally offloads some batteries

Posted Mar 18, 2022 18:48 UTC (Fri) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322) [Link]

https://bugs.python.org/issue27777 was an absolute blocker in my application causing extremely confusing failures (and that only due to quite pedantic tests - we might easily have missed it until it hit production), and caused me weeks of work trying to work around it before I eventually concluded that cgi.FieldStorage was engaged in playing core-wars with other bits of itself and there was no realistic prospect of it ever being fixed, so switched to something different instead. See https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.publisher/issues/39.