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

[Bill Janssen]

> It has been suggested by Fred on the stdlib-sig that urllib should
> just be tossed in favor of urllib2 since most people probably just use
> urlopen() and that is mostly compatible between the two. What do
> people think of that idea?

A quick grep shows that I use "quote", "quote_plus", "unquote", and
"unquote_plus" from urllib.  Not sure how representative that is, but
they should at least be preserved in urllib2.  By the way, shouldn't
the name "urllib" be used for "urllib2", if "urllib" is tossed?

Bill