WSGI's Purpose
Why use WSGI and not just point a web server directly at an application?
- WSGI gives you flexibility. Application developers can swap out web stack components for others. For example, a developer can switch from Green Unicorn to uWSGI without modifying the application or framework that implements WSGI.
- WSGI servers promote scaling. Serving thousands of requests for dynamic content at once is the domain of WSGI servers. WSGI servers handle processing requests from the web server and deciding how to communicate those requests to an application framework's process.
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Why is WSGI necessary?
A traditional web server does not understand or have any way to run Python applications.
Therefore the Python community came up with WSGI as a standard interface that modules and containers could implement. WSGI is now the accepted approach for running Python web applications.
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