Fred Drake <fdr...@acm.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> wro= > te: > > I see the reason. But I doubt if this is a reliable approach. =A0Also > > 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.)
Sounds like a good plan to me, too. Bill _______________________________________________ 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
