[Zope3-dev] Re: PEP 333 and Zope

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 02:25 PM 11/9/04 -0500, Tres Seaver wrote:
>Jim Fulton wrote:
>>Eckart Hertzler wrote:
>>>from StringIO import StringIO
>>cStringIO is faster.
>
>cStringIO is not Unicode-safe.

You're both right, and also irrelevant.  :)  It doesn't matter that it's 
not Unicode-safe, because it's being used for an already-encoded 
bytestream.  It doesn't matter that it's faster, because it shouldn't be 
there; it's buffering the entire response output in memory, which is bad.

It needs to be a file-like object that starts the WSGI response process and 
streams writes directly to the server, or else memory usage will blow up on 
large files.