On 2008-03-01 05:06, Brett Cannon wrote: > Seriously, I just don't want to support two different approaches to > the same problem.
Then what makes you believe that the urllib2 approach is the better one ? Why not move urllib2 to PyPI and keep urllib ? >> It's not really an argument for dropping the more used module in >> favor of a different module without any real benefit. > > Benefit to old users, no. Benefit to the developers, definitely. > Benefit to new users, yes as there will be less to deal with. Same question as above. >> You have to ask yourself whether >> it's ok to ask the maintainers of those ~1000 code modules >> using urllib for subclassing from the two main classes >> URLopener and FancyURLopener to download an external dependency >> from PyPI or ship the module with their code. > > Well, I obviously think it is. Please explain. I have yet to see a single comment explaining why urllib2 would be the better choice - if there's really a need to decide (which I don't think there really is). If you can put up some sound arguments for why urllib2 is better than urllib, we could move the discussion forward. If not, then I don't really see any benefit in having the discussion at all. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 01 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
