Python "robots.txt" parser broken since 2003

[Steven Bethard]

John Nagle wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
>> "John Nagle" <nagle at animats.com> wrote in message 
>> news:FvtWh.11824$YL5.6282 at newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...
>> | This was reported in 2003, and a patch was uploaded in 2005, but the 
>> patch
>> | never made it into Python 2.4 or 2.5.
>>
>> If the patch is still open, perhaps you could review it.
>>
>     I tried it on Python 2.4 and it's in our production system now.
> But someone who regularly does check-ins should do this.

If you post such a review (even just the short sentence above) to the 
patch tracker, it often increases the chance of someone committing the 
patch.

Steve