wsgiref

— WSGI Utilities and Reference Implementation¶

New in version 2.5.

The Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) is a standard interface between web

server software and web applications written in Python. Having a standard

interface makes it easy to use an application that supports WSGI with a number

of different web servers.

Only authors of web servers and programming frameworks need to know every detail

and corner case of the WSGI design. You don’t need to understand every detail

of WSGI just to install a WSGI application or to write a web application using

an existing framework.

wsgiref

is a reference implementation of the WSGI specification that can

be used to add WSGI support to a web server or framework. It provides utilities

for manipulating WSGI environment variables and response headers, base classes

for implementing WSGI servers, a demo HTTP server that serves WSGI applications,

and a validation tool that checks WSGI servers and applications for conformance

to the WSGI specification (PEP 333).

See http://www.wsgi.org for more information about WSGI, and links to tutorials

and other resources.