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

[Joe Gregorio]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>
> > Brett Cannon wrote:
>  >  > which I am liking. But I figured I would ask if there is any remote
>  >  > chance the this SIG has plans to either merge urllib and urllib2 or
>  >  > come up with a new module, or something before 3.0 comes out.
>  >
>  >  httplib2 is basically a replacement for urllib.  I personally prefer it
>  >  to urllib.  I don't know how other people feel, or Joe's thoughts (the
>  >  author).
>  >
>
>  Since no one has stepped forward to go through the hoops necessary to
>  get it into the stdlib I am not going to worry about it for this
>  issue.

I submitted my contributor agreement a while ago, so it should be on file.
My goal has always been to bring forward httplib2 for inclusion in the
std lib, but I didn't want to do that until I got support for proxies, which
just recently went in, and then there's starting to work at Google
which has soaked up all my time as I got up to speed. Anyway, enough
excuses.

I am willing to go through the hoops necessary to get into the std lib
if someone wants to guide me in that process.

   Thanks,
   -joe

>  >  Somewhat ironically httplib2 has a scope that is closer to urllib than
>  >  httplib.  It would be nice if this naming style (x and x2) didn't persist.
>  >
>
>  That's the point of this endeavor.
>
>  It has been suggested by Fred on the stdlib-sig that urllib should
>  just be tossed in favor of urllib2 since most people probably just use
>  urlopen() and that is mostly compatible between the two. What do
>  people think of that idea?
>
>  -Brett
>



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