[Python-Dev] urlparse.urlunsplit should be smarter about +

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

David Abrahams writes:
 > 
 > This is a bug report.  bugs.python.org seems to be down.
 > 
 >   >>> from urlparse import *
 >   >>> urlunsplit(urlsplit('git+file:///foo/bar/baz'))
 >   git+file:/foo/bar/baz
 > 
 > Note the dropped slashes after the colon.

That's clearly wrong, but what does "+" have to to do with it?  AFAIK,
the only thing special about + in scheme names is that it's not
allowed as the first character.