[issue16909] urlparse: add userinfo attribute

2013-01-10 Thread Olof Johansson
Olof Johansson added the comment: Thank you for you feedback. I agree, the reason I wanted this was because of a corner case, but otoh, the username:password syntax is the real corner case imho. Of course, I understand that this must be supported for backwards compatability. (For fully RFC co

[issue16909] urlparse: add userinfo attribute

2013-01-09 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran added the comment: If it does go in, due the RFC requirement, then it would be only in 3.4 (default branch) and the feature may not be backported. Without reading the RFC section, I have an intuitive -1 for this proposal because the suggestion may be a corner case rather than a

[issue16909] urlparse: add userinfo attribute

2013-01-09 Thread Olof Johansson
New submission from Olof Johansson: Hi, The urlparse library's "netloc" attribute is today further split into the following attributes: username, password, hostname, port. The attributes preceding the @ (username, password) are refered to in RFC 3986 [1] as "userinfo", the format of which is