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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> 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.

I didn't mean to say, but it does seem the wrong module -- escape() is
for HTML, not for URLs.

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