Paul Moore wrote: > On 9 July 2010 19:04, Bill Janssen <jans...@parc.com> wrote: >> If we want to perpetuate these guessing heuristics, I'd suggest using >> FTP if the hostname starts with "ftp.", and HTTP if the hostname starts >> with "www.", and raise an error otherwise. > >>From what Tim says, it sounds like guessing is only in 2.x. Removing > the guessing clearly isn't a bug fix, so there's nothing to do in the > 2.x line (as there won't be a 2.8). 3.1 already has the stricter (and > in my view correct) behaviour, and I see no reason to introduce the > 2.x behaviour into Python 3. > > So I'd say there's nothing to do. > Paul.
This /could/ become a bugfix in 2.7.x if people thought it was a sufficiently egregious bug to need fixing. Given that the matter is only now coming to light it's probably bets to let sleeping dogs lie. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 DjangoCon US September 7-9, 2010 http://djangocon.us/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
