[Python-checkins] [python/cpython] 90e01e: urllib: Simplify splithost by calling into urlpars...

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  Branch: refs/heads/master
  Home:   https://github.com/python/cpython
  Commit: 90e01e50ef8a9e6c91f30d965563c378a4ad26de
      https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/90e01e50ef8a9e6c91f30d965563c378a4ad26de
  Author: postmasters <namnguyen at google.com>
  Date:   2017-06-20 (Tue, 20 Jun 2017)

  Changed paths:
    M Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
    M Lib/urllib/parse.py
    M Misc/ACKS
    M Misc/NEWS

  Log Message:
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  urllib: Simplify splithost by calling into urlparse. (#1849)

The current regex based splitting produces a wrong result. For example::

  http://abc#@def

Web browsers parse that URL as ``http://abc/#@def``, that is, the host
is ``abc``, the path is ``/``, and the fragment is ``#@def``.