> GvR> You know, I have *no* idea why this is. I have looked > GvR> through various revisions (this feature is as old as > GvR> cgi.py:1.8) and cannot find any use of or need for > GvR> self.lines! It just gets appended to. > > GvR> So I think it's safe to toss all the references to self.lines > GvR> and see who complains. [Barry] > There are two bug reports related to this in the SF database. The > first one was 110674, which we closed after adding the feature request > to PEP 42. The second is 119806, which looks fairly new, but wasn't > submitted by Chris or Joachim. > > I came to the same conclusion Guido does above when I looked at 110674 > in the Python 2.0 time frame, but didn't feel comfortable making that > change for 2.0. I think it's correct to make the change now. > > I will do the following: > > - remove self.lines from cgi.py > - close bug #119806 > - update pep 42 > > Attached below is the patch. Patch looks good. Go for it. Somehow when I skimmed the original bug reports I never really understood what was going on -- thanks to Christian for pointing out *exactly* what was the problem in words I could understand. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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