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		phillmv on Jan 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django? It seems like it would be easier to rewrite the site in a newer version of Rails rather than switching platforms entirely, so it sounds like someone's skillset is more Python based. Oh! Does the Python world have something like Rack?

ch0wn on Jan 13, 2012 | [–]

Yes, there is WSGI which Rack is roughly based on.

WSGI 1.0, PEP-333: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/

WSGI 1.0.1, PEP-3333: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/

gerrit on Jan 13, 2012 | [–]

Rack was inspired by pythons wsgi

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