On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:30:00AM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: > If you add protocol-specifics to urllib, the abstraction that urllib > provides goes away, and you are better off (IMO) to use the underlying > protocol library in the first place.
IMO you better don't because urllib2 provides not only an abstraction, but a lot of services (authenticated proxies, cached FTP files)... Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com