Python "robots.txt" parser broken since 2003

[John Nagle]

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.
				
					John Nagle