[Python-ideas] Proposed addtion to urllib.parse in 3.1 (and urlparse in 2.7)

[Mart Sõmermaa]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mart Sőmermaa wrote:
> > Right you are, sorry for the mental blunder. So what if the signature is
> > as follows to support passing query parameters via an ordered dict:
> >
> > add_query_params(url, params_dict=None, **kwargs)
> >
> > with the following behaviour:
> >
> >>>> pd = odict()
> >>>> pd['a'] = 1
> >>>> pd['b'] = 2
> >>>> add_query_params('http://foo.com/?a=0', pd, a=3)
> > 'http://foo.com/?a=0&a=1&b=2&a=3 <http://foo.com/?a=0&a=1&b=2&a=3>'
>
> When setting up a dict.update style interface like that, it is often
> better to use *args for the two positional arguments - it avoids
> accidental name conflicts between the positional arguments and arbitrary
> keyword arguments.


Thanks, another good point.
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