[stdlib-sig] Choosing one of two options for url* in the stdlib reorg
Steven Bethard
steven.bethard at gmail.com
Fri Feb 29 04:23:09 CET 2008
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> So, two options for people to show support for. One is to keep
> everything and get cute with the naming::
>
> urlparse -> url.parse
> urllib -> url.fetch
> urllib2 -> url.request
>
> The second option is to ditch urllib, move the handy quoting tools
> into either their own module or into what is currently urllib2::
>
> urlparse -> url.parse
> urllib -> GONE
> urllib's utility functions -> url.quote
> urllib2 -> url.request
+1 for the second option. I'd also be happy if there were fewer than
3 modules in the package, but mainly I'd like to see urllib gone with
urllib2 in its place.
Steve
--
I'm not *in*-sane. Indeed, I am so far *out* of sane that you appear a
tiny blip on the distant coast of sanity.
--- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy
More information about the stdlib-sig
mailing list