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[Python-Dev] Copying cgi.parse_qs() to the urllib.parse module

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon May 12 03:23:53 CEST 2008

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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Fred Drake schrieb:
>>>>
>>>> On May 10, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Works for me. The other thing I always use from cgi is escape() --
>>>>> will that be available somewhere else too?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> xml.sax.saxutils.escape() would be an appropriate replacement, though  the
>>>> location is a little funky.
>>
>> More than a little IMO. :-(
>>
>
> Well, if that function is better than who cares about the location; it
> will end up in urllib.parse as some function.

It's a trivial function; it shouldn't pull in three packages and lots
of other cruft.

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