Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> added the comment: Fixed the wordings in r86296(py3k), r86297(release31-maint) and r86298(release27-maint). David, for the examples you mentioned, the first one's parsing logic follows the explanation that is written. It is correct. For the second example, the port value not being a DIGIT exhibits such a behavior. I am unable to recollect the reason for this behavior. Either the URL is invalid (PORT is not a DIGIT, and parse module is simply ignoring to raise an error - it's okay, given the input is invalid) or it needs to distinguish the ':' as a port separator from path separator for some valid urls. I think, if we find a better reason to change something for the second scenario, we shall address that. ---------- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed type: -> behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10226> _______________________________________