[Brett]

On the web-sig I am working on how to handle urllib/urllib2/urlparse and Cookie/cookielib.

Why have a package for cookies? It's not a five module monster. In this case, the additional mental cost of having a package will more than offset the mental savings of having one less top level module. Some of the cookie stuff is long since deprecated or dying from neglect. How about removing the deadwood and rolling it into a single module? IMO, packages are for organizing large amounts of code. That doesn't apply here. Raymond