[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] parse_qs and parse_qsl functions

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Aug 16, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:

>On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Facundo Batista
><facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> The issue 600362 has two patches (one for 2.6 and the other for 3.0)
>> that are ready to commit (with a small change in the docs). This
>> patches relocates the parse_qs and parse_qsl functions into the
>> urlparse module (urllib.parse in 3k), bringing them from the cgi one.
>>
>> For backward compatibility, those functions are also accessible from
>> the cgi module, but in the documentation says that the function was
>> moved, and you should use it from the urlparse one.
>>
>> So, we don't have *any* change in the behaviour towards the final user.
>>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> - It's ok to do this now or we should wait for 3.1/2.7?
>>
>> - Should we add a deprecation warning in the cgi module for this functions?
>>
>> I propose to commit this now, but leave a deprecation warning for the
>> next release.
>>
>
>Obviously Barry's call, but I think it's fine to do what you are proposing.

I think it's fine to commit this.  I would put a DeprecationWarning in 3.0 and
a PendingDeprecationWarning in 2.6 (updated to a DW in 2.7).

- -Barry
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