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

Titus Brown titus at caltech.edu
Thu Feb 21 03:40:22 CET 2008


On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:38:16PM -0500, Fred Drake wrote:
-> 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.

yes

-> >  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.

+inf

--titus


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