On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 06:32:35 +1300 Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote: > > > > The only place where URIs are used seem to be the "urlspec" rule, and > > probably you can accept any opaque string there. > > Uhm, why are you making this suggestion? What problem will we solve by > using a proxy rule?
Making the PEP simpler, making implementations simpler, avoiding bugs in implementations which may otherwise try to implement full URI matching, avoiding having to issue a PEP update whenever the IETF updates the definition. These are the four I can think about, anyway :-) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig