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

[Fred Drake]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
>  A quick grep shows that I use "quote", "quote_plus", "unquote", and
>  "unquote_plus" from urllib.  Not sure how representative that is, but

Those are probably pretty commonly in use, I suppose.  They should
definitely be preserved somewhere.

>  they should at least be preserved in urllib2.  By the way, shouldn't
>  the name "urllib" be used for "urllib2", if "urllib" is tossed?

No.  The names urllib and urllib2 should both be tossed.  The *lib
naming convention is horrible and should die a painful death.


 -Fred

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