Olof Johansson added the comment:
Thank you for you feedback. I agree, the reason I wanted this was because of a
corner case, but otoh, the username:password syntax is the real corner case
imho. Of course, I understand that this must be supported for backwards
compatability.
(For fully RFC
New submission from Olof Johansson:
Hi,
The urlparse library's netloc attribute is today further split into the
following attributes: username, password, hostname, port. The attributes
preceding the @ (username, password) are refered to in RFC 3986 [1] as
userinfo, the format of which
