Simple overview of WSGI

Defined in PEP 333, WSGI is a specification for the interface between web servers and web applications. Rick Copeland posted a nice, simple overview of WSGI for beginners.

Quoth Rick:

In all the posting and hype about full-featured frameworks, you may have overlooked a very small “un-framework”, the Python web server gateway interface (WSGI). It’s generally an option for deploying the large frameworks such as TurboGears or Django. What follows is a very simple and brief overview of how you can create a WSGI-compliant application server.

Worth reading if you want to get into the realm of Python web frameworks.

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