[Python-Dev] New uriparse.py (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Apr 2 19:02:30 CEST 2006

Paul Jimenez wrote:

Announcing uriparse.py, submitted for inclusion in the standard library. Patch request 1462525. Per the original discussion at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-November/058301.html I'm submitting a library meant to deprecate the existing urlparse library. Questions and comments welcome.

My initial reaction was "why is it necessary to break everything"? I then re-read the thread, and found this is all fine.

However, this shows (to me) that there is a big lack of rationale in this contribution. You explained it as "urlparse breaks abstractions"; however, this didn't mean anything to me. Saying "urlparse doesn't comply with STD66 (aka RFC3986) because it hard-codes URI schemes, instead of applying the same syntax to all of them" is something I would have understood as a problem.

So in short: are you willing to write documentation for this? The rationale section could either go into the urllib documentation (pointing out that particular problem, and referring to urilib as an improvement)

Regards, Martin

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