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

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Joe Gregorio <joe at bitworking.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>  > 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).
>  >  >
>  >
>  >  Since no one has stepped forward to go through the hoops necessary to
>  >  get it into the stdlib I am not going to worry about it for this
>  >  issue.
>
>  I submitted my contributor agreement a while ago, so it should be on file.
>  My goal has always been to bring forward httplib2 for inclusion in the
>  std lib, but I didn't want to do that until I got support for proxies, which
>  just recently went in, and then there's starting to work at Google
>  which has soaked up all my time as I got up to speed.

New jobs tend to do that, especially Google.

> Anyway, enough
>  excuses.
>
>  I am willing to go through the hoops necessary to get into the std lib
>  if someone wants to guide me in that process.

The general steps are (in no particular order):

* Have the code written and meeting PEP 7/8 standards.
* Thorough unit tests using unittest or doctest.
* Full documentation ready to go in the proper format.
* Promise to maintain the code for at least a couple of years and have
your contrib agreement in.
* Use Python's issue tracker and svn repository as the main point of
development.
* Have the community consider it best-of-breed.
* Convince the stdlib-sig that it is a good addition and then python-dev.

I think that's everything. =) If you have more questions you can email
the stdlib-sig and/or me.

-Brett