On Sep 18, 2010, at 10:18 PM, Steve Holden wrote:
>> I could probably be persuaded to merge the APIs, but the email6
>> precedent suggests to me that separating the APIs better reflects the
>> mental model we're trying to encourage in programmers manipulating
>> text (i.e. the difference between the raw octet sequence and the text
>> character sequence/parsed data).
>>
> That sounds pretty sane and coherent to me.
While I don't like the email6 precedent as such (that there would be different
parsed objects, based on whether you started parsing with bytes or with
strings), the idea that when you are working directly with bytes or text, you
should have to know which one you have, is a good one. +1 for keeping the APIs
separate with 'urlsplitb' etc.
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