On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 11:51:21 -0700 Josiah Carlson <josiah.carlson@gmail.com> wrote:
My long-term dream (which has been the case for 6+ years, since I proposed doing it myself on the python-dev mailing list and was told "no") is that whether someone uses urllib2, httplib2, smtpd, requests, ftplib, etc., they all have access to high-quality protocol-level protocol parsers.
I'm not sure what you're talking about: what were you told "no" about, specifically? Your proposal sounds reasonable and (ideally) desirable to me.
I've managed to find the email where I half-way proposed it (though not as pointed as what I posted above): http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-November/049827.html Phillip J. Eby said in a reply that policy would kill it. My experience at the time told me that policy was a tough nut to crack, and my 24-year old self wasn't confident enough to keep pushing (even though I had the time). Now, my 32-year old self has the confidence and the knowledge to do it (or advise how to do it), but not the time (I'm finishing up my first book, doing a conference tour, running a startup, and preparing for my first child). One of the big reasons why I like and am pushing Giampaolo's ideas (and existing code) is my faith that he *can* and *will* do it, if he says he will. Regards, - Josiah