[Python-Dev] Some more comments re new uriparse module, patch 1462525 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Jun 4 17:01:29 CEST 2006

Paul Jimenez wrote:

On Friday, Jun 2, 2006, John J Lee writes:

[Not sure whether this kind of thing is best posted as tracker comments (but then the tracker gets terribly long and is mailed out every time a change happens) or posted here. Feel free to tell me I'm posting in the wrong place...] I think this is a fine place - more googleable, still archived, etc.

Some comments on this patch (a new module, submitted by Paul Jimenez, implementing the rules set out in RFC 3986 for URI parsing, joining URI references with a base URI etc.)

http://python.org/sf/1462525 Note that like many opensource authors, I wrote this to 'scratch an itch' that I had... and am submitting it in hopes of saving someone else somewhere some essentially identical work. I'm not married to it; I just want something like it to end up in the stdlib so that I can use it.

I started to write a reply to this with some comments on the API (including the internal subclassing API), but ended up with so many different suggestions it was easier to just post a variant of the module. I called it "urischemes" and posted it on SF:

http://python.org/sf/1500504

It takes more advantage of the strict hierarchy defined in RFC 3986 by always treating parsed URI's as 5-tuples, and the authority component as a 4-tuple. A parser is allowed to return any object it likes for the path, query or fragment components, so long as invoked str() on the result gives an appropriate string for use by make_uri.

Additionally, since the semantics won't be the same as urlparse anyway, I haven't been as worried about keeping the APIs identical (although they're still similar).

In various places, it also makes more use of keyword arguments and dictionaries to specify defaults values, rather than relying on tuples padded with lots of Nones.

There's more in the tracker item about the API and implementation differences. They're all about improving maintainability and extensibility rather than providing any additional functionality.

Cheers, Nick.

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