Why should I use WSGI?

Question

Been using mod_python for a while, I read more and more articles about how good WSGI is, without really understanding why.

So why should I switch to it? What are the ben

Answer 1

You shouldn't have to relearn much, since the difference from a developer perspective is just a small wrapper and some server configuration.

From a deployment perspective, the difference is that your python code lives in a separate process from the web browser, which means

a) The python process can be running as another user than the web server. This can be valuable for security, if used right.

b) The web server processes does not need to contain the python runtime. This can be a major boost for performance if the server runs a lot of "other" requests (static files, etc) and some heavy python requests.