[Python-Dev] urllib and doc: (was: CVS: python/dist/src/Lib onlinehelp.py,NONE,1.1)
Greg Stein
gstein@lyra.org
Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:04:10 -0700
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 03:58:22PM -0500, Paul Prescod wrote:
>...
> How about this: if I taught urllib (or something) to translate doc: URLs
> into real URLs then you could do something like:
>
> browser.browse( "doc:lib/lambda" )
>
> Maybe that would help...more thought needed.
urllib should NOT try to parse a "doc:" scheme. Any scheme in urllib should
ONLY be IANA-registered schemes, and the resulting URL should follow the
appropriate RFCs.
If doc: is ever registered, then go ahead and teach it to urllib. Until
then, I'll scream and shout and be very annoying :-)
Big -1 on this from me.
Cheers,
-g
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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/