AdamN <adam@varud.com> added the comment: I think I misspoke before. What I'm referring to is when somebody uses the 'scheme' parameter: urlsplit('cnn.com',scheme='http') Is there no way that we can document that this won't work the way that people think it will? Is it really reasonable for a high-level language to expect people to have read a 100 page RFC in order to know that regular expressions will have to be used for this type of situation? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8818> _______________________________________