On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> wrote: > I see the reason. But I doubt if this is a reliable approach. Also > when the scheme begins with file:// it should not be confused with > ftp, so I think, that portion of code in urllib which work that way > should be removed.
I'm not trying to defend the current behavior of defaulting to FTP as a good thing; it's definitely surprising. I am trying to rationalize it so I can be sure I understand why it might have been done to start with. My own preference is to kick out any non-local references with an exception that can be detected (possibly derived from ValueError) so that applications that want rewrite (hopefully with user agreement!) can do so. (Checking for non-local file: URLs on input might be better, of course.) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ 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
