Request are now available as public attributes, e.g. full_url and
host. The accessor methods are deprecated. The implementation
replace the complicated __getattr__ machinery with a _parse() method.
The response from an HTTP request is now an HTTPResponse instance
instead of an addinfourl() wrapper instance. The wrapper provided
minimal extract functionality and was undocumented. The API of
addinfourl() was preserved, except for close hooks, by adding a few
methods and public attributes to the HTTPResponse class.
Code contributed by Matt Giuca. quote() now encodes the input
before quoting, unquote() decodes after unquoting. There are
new arguments to change the encoding and errors settings.
There are also new APIs to skip the encode/decode steps.
[un]quote_plus() are also affected.
It consists of code from urllib, urllib2, urlparse, and robotparser.
The old modules have all been removed. The new package has five
submodules: urllib.parse, urllib.request, urllib.response,
urllib.error, and urllib.robotparser. The urllib.request.urlopen()
function uses the url opener from urllib2.
Note that the unittests have not been renamed for the
beta, but they will be renamed in the future.
Joint work with Senthil Kumaran.
Jeremy Hylton
Guido van Rossum
Barry Warsaw
Georg Brandl