[Python-Dev] [Python-ideas] Proposed addtion to urllib.parse in 3.1 (and urlparse in 2.7)

[Bill Janssen]

Mart Sõmermaa <mrts.pydev at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That said, I'm starting to wonder if an even better option may be to
> > just drop the kwargs support from the function and require people to
> > always supply a parameters dictionary. That would simplify the signature
> > to the quite straightforward:
> >
> >  def add_query_params(url, params, allow_dups=True, sep='&')

Or even better, stop trying to use a mapping, and just make the "params"
value a list of (name, value) pairs.  That way you can stop fiddling
around with "allow_dups" and just get rid of it.

Bill