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[Thomas B. Passin]

[Alexandre
> > > The changes are mainly on the line of changing urllib.urlopen to
> > > urllib2.urlopen, and urllib.basejoin to urlparse.urljoin.
> >
> > Hmm.  Here be dragons.
>
> ;o)
>
> > There are subtle but important differences between the behavior of
> > urllib.basejoin and  urlparse.urljoin, especially with file URLs in
Windows.
> > I don't remember the full details off-head but I think Tom Passim and
Mike
> > Olson had detailed messages on this in the past.
>
> If anyone has an approximative date for this one, I'd be glad to go and
> have a look in the archives.
>

The whale blows from time to time, as for example -

3-7-2001
1-18-2002
7-15-2002

Cheers,

Tom P