R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> added the comment: How would you expect urlsplit to differentiate between a relative path and a path with a netloc? I would think that most people would expect the semantics the module provides without reading any additional documentation. I certainly did, to the point where when reading your example I didn't even notice that there was any problem report other than the misnaming of the scheme keyword :) You could suggest a clarification to the docs if you like. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8818> _______________________________________