[New-bugs-announce] [issue27485] urllib.splitport -- is it official or not?

[Guido van Rossum]

New submission from Guido van Rossum:

I've seen and written some code that uses urllib.splitport() [1], but it's not in the export list, nor in the docs. However I see no easy other way to perform the same function. Should we make it official, or get rid of it? It's used internally in urllib/request.py [2]. There's a test for it in test_urlparse.py [3], but another test [4] also acknowledges that it's "undocumented" (which suggests that the author of that test didn't know what to do with it either).

Same question for the others in that list [4]:
            'splitattr', 'splithost', 'splitnport', 'splitpasswd',
            'splitport', 'splitquery', 'splittag', 'splittype', 'splituser',
            'splitvalue',
            'Quoter', 'ResultBase', 'clear_cache', 'to_bytes', 'unwrap',

References:
[1] https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/urllib/parse.py#l956
[2] https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/urllib/request.py#l106
[3] https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py#l1015
[4] https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py#l946

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messages: 270193
nosy: gvanrossum
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: urllib.splitport -- is it official or not?
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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