[Python-Dev] Finally switch urllib.parse to RFC3986 semantics?

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> With RFC 3986 passing its 6th birthday, and with it being well past
>>> its 7th by the time 3.3 comes out, can we finally switch to supporting
>>> the current semantics rather than the obsolete behaviour?
>>
>> We do infact, support RFC 3986, expect for the cases where those
>> conflict with the previous RFCs. (IOW, backwards compatible).
>> The tests can give you a good picture here. Do you mean, we should
>> just do away with backwards  compatibility? Or you had anything else
>> specifically in mind?
>
> Backwards compatible with *what* though?
>
> For the decimal module, we treat deviations from spec as bug fixes and
> update accordingly, even if this changes behaviour.
>
> For URL parsing, the spec has changed (6 years ago!), but we still
> don't provide a spec-conformant implementation, even via a flag or new
> function.

Can you be specific? What is different between those RFCs?

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