On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
On Feb 20, 2008 8:47 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> wrote:

> How about using the following mapping:
>
> urllib  -> url.fetch
> urllib2 -> url.request
>

I can live with that. What do other people think?


I'm fine with it, if both packages are kept.
But since it looks like urllib is considered inferior to urllib2, shouldn't it be possible to improve the latter (integrating whatever can be salvaged from urllib) and removing the former, in the spirit of Christian's suggestion ?

Quentin