legacy-cgi

Python has a policy against maintaining compatibility with boring technology. We discussed this at some length in this thread the other day at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44477966; many people voiced their opposition to the policy. The alternatives suggested for the specific case of the cgi module were: - wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler, which is not deprecated yet. gvalkov provided example code for Flask at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44479388 - use a language that isn't Python so you don't have to debug your code every year to make it work again when the language maintainers intentionally break it - install the old cgi module for new Python from https://github.com/jackrosenthal/legacy-cgi - continue using Python 3.12, where the module is still in the standard library, until mid-02028

Here's the justification for removing cgi - https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/#cgi Amusingly that links to https://peps.python.org/pep-0206/ from 14th July 2000 (25 years ago!) which, even back then, described the cgi package as "designed poorly and are now near-impossible to fix". Looks like the https://github.com/jackrosenthal/legacy-cgi package provides a drop-in replacement for the standard library module.