On Wednesday, 31 October 2012, Mathias Panzenböck  wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sometimes it would be handy to read data:-urls just like any other url. While it is pretty easy to parse a data: url yourself I think it would be nice if urllib could do this for you.<br>

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</blockquote><div>[...]</div><div><br></div><div>IIUC, this should be possible with a custom opener. While it might be nice to have this in the stdlib, it would also be a really useful recipe to have in the docs, showing how to create and install a simple custom opener into the default set of openers (so that urllib.request gains the ability to handle data rules automatically). Would you be willing to submit a doc patch to cover this?<span></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Paul </div>