[Python-ideas] Support data: URLs in urllib

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.

Example data url parser:

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import base64 import urllib.parse

def read_data_url(url): scheme, data = url.split(":") assert scheme == "data", "unsupported scheme: "+scheme mimetype, data = data.split(",") if mimetype.endswith(";base64"): return mimetype[:-7] or None, base64.b64decode(data.encode("UTF-8")) else: return mimetype or None, urllib.parse.unquote(data).encode("UTF-8")

See also: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397

-panzi