[stdlib-sig] Any ideas on how to handle urllib, urllib2, and urlparse?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Christian Heimes wrote:
> Facundo Batista wrote:
>> What to do with the methods that will be lost because of keeping a
>> slightly different one with the same functionality? We could keep them
>> with a deprecation warning, or simply let them disappear (+0 for the
>> former, even considering we're in 3k).
> 
> Merging urllib and urllib2 into a completely new module with a (although
> slightly) different API is a good thing. But it also increases the
> burden and workload for Python users. We should keep the original
> modules around if a change can't be handled by a 2to3 fixer. We can
> always deprecate a module for 3.1.
> 
> For urllib/urllib2 I propose:
> 
> * merge the functionality into a new, improved module
> * keep the original ones around for 3.0 and schedule them for removal in
> 3.1.

I'm not sure that would work: urllib is one of the most used modules
in Python when it comes to doing even only slightly web-related
work.

I've never used urllib2 and am not sure what the reason was for
adding it. It doesn't appear to offer more or better things than
urllib... to late to argue, I guess ;-)

In any case, deprecating a module after the jump to 3.0 is more
problematic than during the major version number change.

How about using the following mapping:

urllib  -> url.fetch
urllib2 -> url.request

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