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

Facundo Batista wrote:

What to do with the methods that will be lost because of keeping a slightly different one with the same functionality? We could keep them with a deprecation warning, or simply let them disappear (+0 for the former, even considering we're in 3k).

Merging urllib and urllib2 into a completely new module with a (although slightly) different API is a good thing. But it also increases the burden and workload for Python users. We should keep the original modules around if a change can't be handled by a 2to3 fixer. We can always deprecate a module for 3.1.

For urllib/urllib2 I propose:

* merge the functionality into a new, improved module * keep the original ones around for 3.0 and schedule them for removal in 3.1.

Christian