[Web-SIG] Dealing with urllib, urllib2, and urlparse

[Guido van Rossum]

Are you sure you don't mean urllib2? I *know* that urllib2 is a
replacement for urllib. AFAIK there is no httplib2...

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> Brett Cannon wrote:
>  > which I am liking. But I figured I would ask if there is any remote
>  > chance the this SIG has plans to either merge urllib and urllib2 or
>  > come up with a new module, or something before 3.0 comes out.
>
>  httplib2 is basically a replacement for urllib.  I personally prefer it
>  to urllib.  I don't know how other people feel, or Joe's thoughts (the
>  author).
>
>  Somewhat ironically httplib2 has a scope that is closer to urllib than
>  httplib.  It would be nice if this naming style (x and x2) didn't persist.
>
>    Ian
>
>
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