[Python-checkins] r82940 - in python/branches/release27-maint: Doc/library/urllib.rst Lib/test/test_urllib.py Lib/urllib.py Misc/NEWS

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:27:10 +0200 (CEST)
senthil.kumaran <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
>  Utility functions
>  -----------------
>  
> -.. function:: quote(string[, safe])
> +.. function:: quote(string[, safe[, encoding[, errors]]])

New APIs shouldn't be added in bugfix releases. Is there a strong
reason to do this?

Looking at the issue (which in itself was quite old), you could as well
have fixed the robotparser module instead.

Thanks

Antoine.