[Python-Dev] Need help with urllib/urllib2 (SF bug 549151) (original) (raw)

Brett C. drifty@alum.berkeley.edu
Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:03:34 -0700

John J Lee wrote:

Guido wrote (in SF tracker for bug #549151):

Feel free to assign this to yourself if you want to grab it. If this was directed at me: I'm not a Python SF admin. I'm happy to re-check & apply the patches, but it's up to you to decide whether it's worth the bother to add me as an admin just for that one thing.

It was actually directed at all of the existing developers on python-dev.

> _BTW, I guess it's too late to get rid of urllib2.Request.getmethod, since_ > _that got into 2.2.3. [It's true that, thanks to yours truly, 2.2.3's_ > _urllib2 is broken (there's a typo in the redirect code, believe it or_ > _not), but that doesn't make it OK to introduce a new method, then_ > _immediately yank it out again, I suppose!]_ > Did the 2.2 branch get patched with a fix for the typo? If not please make a patch since the 2.2 branch is going to be around for a while.

As for removing the method, it has to be deprecated first since it has been in an actual release.

-Brett