Re: [Python-Dev] Py3K thought: use external library for client-side HTTP

2006-03-17 Thread Brett Cannon
On 3/17/06, A.M. Kuchling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thought: We should drop all of httplib, urllib, urllib2, and ftplib, > and instead adopt some third-party library for HTTP/FTP/whatever, > write a Python wrapper, and use it instead. (The only such library I > know of is libcurl, but doubtless

Re: [Python-Dev] Py3K thought: use external library for client-side HTTP

2006-03-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
A.M. Kuchling wrote: > Good idea? Dumb idea? I have no idea about urllib, but httplib certainly should stay, and its bugs should get fixed (and will get fixed, over time). It is very easy to write a httplib application, since you can follow its source code. It would be much more complicated to u