[Python-Dev] Copying cgi.parse_qs() to the urllib.parse module

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>> Fred Drake schrieb:
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 10, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Works for me. The other thing I always use from cgi is escape() --
>>>>>> will that be available somewhere else too?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> xml.sax.saxutils.escape() would be an appropriate replacement, though  the
>>>>> location is a little funky.
>>>
>>> More than a little IMO. :-(
>>>
>>
>> Well, if that function is better than who cares about the location; it
>> will end up in urllib.parse as some function.
>
> It's a trivial function; it shouldn't pull in three packages and lots
> of other cruft.

So are you saying that it isn't that much better in urllib.parse? That
only cuts the package count down by one.

-Brett