Re: [stdlib-sig] Choosing one of two options for url* in the stdlib reorg

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Brett Cannon brett@python.org wrote:

So, two options for people to show support for. One is to keep everything and get cute with the naming::

urlparse -> url.parse urllib -> url.fetch urllib2 -> url.request

The second option is to ditch urllib, move the handy quoting tools into either their own module or into what is currently urllib2::

urlparse -> url.parse urllib -> GONE urllib's utility functions -> url.quote urllib2 -> url.request

+1 for the second option. I'd also be happy if there were fewer than 3 modules in the package, but mainly I'd like to see urllib gone with urllib2 in its place.

Steve