Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: RFC - GoogleSOC proposal -cleanupurllib

2007-03-24 Thread Mike Brown
Senthil Kumaran wrote: > I have written a proposal to cleanup urllib as part of Google SoC. I am > attaching the file 'soc1' with this email. Requesting you to go through the > proposal and provide any feedback which I can incorporate in my submission. >From your proposal: > 2) In all modules, Fo

Re: [Python-Dev] urllib.quote and unicode bug resuscitation attempt

2006-07-15 Thread Mike Brown
Stefan Rank wrote: > Well, originally, I would have expected it to return a byte str(ing), I'd assume unicode in, unicode out, and str in, str out, but since it's always going to produce ASCII-range characters, it wouldn't matter. Moot point anyway. > BUT > I am now converted and think it is best

Re: [Python-Dev] urllib.quote and unicode bug resuscitation attempt

2006-07-13 Thread Mike Brown
Stefan Rank wrote: > on 12.07.2006 07:53 Martin v. Löwis said the following: > > Anthony Baxter wrote: > >>> The right thing to do is IRIs. > >> For 2.5, should we at least detect that it's unicode and raise a > >> useful error? > > > > That can certainly be done, sure. > > > > Martin > > That

Re: [Python-Dev] UUID module

2006-06-10 Thread Mike Brown
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > > > Quite a few people have expressed interest in having UUID > > functionality in the standard library, and previously on this > > list some suggested possibly using the uuid.py module i wrote: > > > > http://zesty.ca/python/uuid.py > > +1! +1 as

Re: [Python-Dev] Some more comments re new uriparse module, patch 1462525

2006-06-08 Thread Mike Brown
John J Lee wrote: > > http://python.org/sf/1500504 > [...] > > At first glance, looks good. I hope to review it properly later. > > One point: I don't think there should be any mention of "URL" in the > module -- we should use "URI" everywhere (see my comments on Paul's > original version for

Re: [Python-Dev] New Pythondoc by effbot

2006-01-24 Thread Mike Brown
BJ> Why does it have to be "wiki-like"? Why can't it be a wiki? MediaWiki > seem to work pretty well for a lot of software projects that have put > their documentation in a wiki. Talk pages for commentary and primary > pages for reviewed content. And inconsistent formatting from article to article

Re: [Python-Dev] ElementTree in stdlib

2005-12-12 Thread Mike Brown
"Martin v. L> So as that has more-or-less failed, the next natural approach is > "let's believe in the community". For that, two things need to > happen: the author of the package must indicate that he would like > to see it incorporated, and the users must indicate that they like > the package. Bo

[Python-Dev] ElementTree in stdlib

2005-12-12 Thread Mike Brown
Catching up on some python-dev email, I was surprised to see that things seem to be barrelling ahead with the adding of ElementTree to Python core without any discussion on XML-SIG. Sidestepping XML-SIG and the proving grounds of PyXML in order to satsify the demand for a Pythonic databinding+AP

Re: [Python-Dev] urlparse brokenness

2005-11-27 Thread Mike Brown
Guido van Rossum wrote: > IIRC I did it this way because the RFC about parsing urls specifically > prescribed it had to be done this way. That was true as of RFC 1808 (1995-1998), although the grammar actually allowed for a more generic interpretation. Such an interpretation was suggested in RF

Re: [Python-Dev] urlparse brokenness

2005-11-23 Thread Mike Brown
Paul Jimenez wrote: > So I propose that urlsplit, the main offender, be replaced with something > that looks like: > > def urlsplit(url, scheme='', allow_fragments=1, default=('','','','','')): +1 in principle. You should probably do a global _parse_cache and add 'is not None' after 'if cac

Re: [Python-Dev] bug in urlparse

2005-09-08 Thread Mike Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > According to RFC 2396[1] section 5.2: RFC 2396 is obsolete. It was superseded by RFC 3986 / STD 66 early this year. In particular, the procedure for removing dot-segments from the path component of a URI reference -- a procedure that is only supposed to be done when '

Re: [Python-Dev] string find(substring) vs. substring in string

2005-02-16 Thread Mike Brown
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > any special reason why "in" is faster if the substring is found, but > a lot slower if it's not in there? Just guessing here, but in general I would think that it would stop searching as soon as it found it, whereas until then, it keeps looking, which takes more time. But

Re: [Python-Dev] mimetypes and _winreg

2005-02-01 Thread Mike Brown
Following up on this 12 Jun 2004 post... Garth wrote: > Thomas Heller wrote: > >Mike Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>I thought it would be nice to try to improve the mimetypes module by having > >>it, on Windows, query the Registry to get the mapping of