The package includes a WSGI wrapper for [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]] applications. It also includes a simple webserver that can produce WSGI requests.
▲The Python Paste package mainly provides Python modules to act as middleware.
In addition to middleware, it provides a simple Python webserver that can produce WSGI request and a wrapper used to pass WSGI requests to [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]] applications. Paste may be understood as a set of libraries making use of the WSGI standard to provide functionality other than the direct creation of content. This is useful when one is deploying applications written in a Python [[web application framework|web framework]].
