[stdlib-sig] Any ideas on how to handle urllib, urllib2, and urlparse?

Dealing with the URL-related modules is the last specific thing I want to deal with in terms of new packages. The problem is that urllib and urllib2 each have a key function that are named the same thing with slightly different parameters and returning objects that have the same base interface but are different classes and provide a different way to overload what gets returned. Doing something like: urllib -> url.fetch (not url.open since url.open.urlopen() looks weird) urllib2 -> url.fetch2 urlparse -> url.parse seems somewhat silly, but the best I can think of right now. I could ask the web-sig if they think we could try to get rid of either urllib or urllib2, but I suspect they will say no. -Brett