[Python-Dev] RFC - proposal for urilib. unified module of urlparse, urllib and urllib2

[Georg Brandl]

O.R.Senthil Kumaran schrieb:
> Hello All,
> 
> I am drafting a PEP proposing a module 'urilib', which will be the unified
> module of urlparse, urllib and urllib2.
> 
> a) _all_ functions will include from urlparse,urllib and urllib2. b)
> overlapping functionality between urllib and urllib2 to be ironed out. c)
> RFC3986 and RFC3987 compliant.
> 
> Cleanup task of urllib was my G-SoC, and this unified module is a suggestion
> with python 2.6 in mind.
> 
> I would like to know your thoughts on - How should we plan to maintain the
> backward compatiblity? - What other features should be kept in mind while
> designing?

In any case, you should probably be ready to write and maintain a PEP to keep
track of suggestions and proposals in case there are many of them, or
inclusion in 2.6 is debated.

Georg


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