[Web-SIG] Dealing with urllib, urllib2, and urlparse

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Fred Drake <fdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
>  >  A quick grep shows that I use "quote", "quote_plus", "unquote", and
>  >  "unquote_plus" from urllib.  Not sure how representative that is, but
>
>  Those are probably pretty commonly in use, I suppose.  They should
>  definitely be preserved somewhere.
>

Right. I would never toss that part of the module.

>
>  >  they should at least be preserved in urllib2.  By the way, shouldn't
>  >  the name "urllib" be used for "urllib2", if "urllib" is tossed?
>
>  No.  The names urllib and urllib2 should both be tossed.  The *lib
>  naming convention is horrible and should die a painful death.

Trying my best. =)

-Brett