[Python-Dev] urlparse.urlunsplit should be smarter about +

David Abrahams writes:

This is a bug report. bugs.python.org seems to be down.

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from urlparse import * urlunsplit(urlsplit('git+file:///foo/bar/baz')) git+file:/foo/bar/baz

Note the dropped slashes after the colon.

That's clearly wrong, but what does "+" have to to do with it? AFAIK, the only thing special about + in scheme names is that it's not allowed as the first character.