[Python-Dev] [Python-ideas] Proposed addtion to urllib.parse in 3.1 (and urlparse in 2.7) (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Sun Apr 19 22:21:05 CEST 2009

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Bill Janssen <janssen parc.com> writes: > > Or even better, stop trying to use a mapping, and just make the "params" > value a list of (name, value) pairs.

You can even accept both a list of (name, value) pairs /and/ some **kwargs, like the dict constructor does. It would be a pity to drop the user-friendliness of kwargs just to satisfy some rare and obscure requirement.

This whole discussion seems a bit "rare and obscure" to me. I've built URLs for years without this method, and never felt the lack. What bugs me is the lack of a way to build multipart-formdata payloads, the only standard way to send non-Latin1 strings as part of a request.

I'd like to suggest we move this off python-dev, and to either the Web-SIG or stdlib-sig mailing lists, which are probably more interested in all of this.

Bill

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