[Python-Dev] Py3K thought: use external library for client-side HTTP (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Mar 17 23:36:16 CET 2006


A.M. Kuchling wrote:

Good idea? Dumb idea?

I have no idea about urllib, but httplib certainly should stay, and its bugs should get fixed (and will get fixed, over time).

It is very easy to write a httplib application, since you can follow its source code. It would be much more complicated to use a native library.

Regards, Marttin



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