Senthil Kumaran added the comment: RFC3986 bears the weightage since urlparse aims to satisfy that. As per that, mailto should return the url as path, and current urlparse behaves properly.
$ ./python.exe Python 3.4.0a0 (default:50164abbfc98+, Apr 8 2013, 22:19:34) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import urllib.parse >>> urllib.parse.urlparse("mailto:f...@example.com?subject=hi") ParseResult(scheme='mailto', netloc='', path='f...@example.com', params='', query='subject=hi', fragment='') >>> So, I am closing this bug as won't fix. ---------- resolution: -> fixed stage: test needed -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6640> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com