[Python-3000] Comments on PEP 3108

[John J Lee]

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> Consolidate dependent modules together into a single module or package?
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> Cookie/cookielib

There is no dependency in either direction between these two, and they do 
quite different things (as ISTR is documented in one or both modules).


>     + urlparse?

Since RFC 3986 and 3987 have now been published, this should be deprecated 
in favour of module uriparse (once it's been through the review process 
and various known issues with it are resolved).  I think uriparse.py is on 
Python SF patch tracker somewhere (I forget who contributed it, sorry).

(I'm -1 on the name "uriparse", FWIW, because of the implication that the 
difference between urlparse and uriparse is something to do with the 
difference between URLs and URIs (it is not).  But if urlparse goes away 
fairly quickly, maybe that's not a big deal.)


>     + httplib?

Greg Stein pointed out on the web-sig some years back that some of the 
functionality of urllib2 (handling redirections, auth, etc.) could/should 
be added to httplib.  I suspect one could devise a similar system to 
urllib2 handlers (as of Python 2.4) that would nicely allow the redirect 
etc. functionality to be implemented only once, while preserving backwards 
compatibility for both modules.  I may (or may not) work on this myself.


John