New submission from Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com>:
The documentation for urllib.request.urlopen [0] says that:
"""
This function returns a file-like object [addinfourl] with two additional
methods from the urllib.response module
geturl() — return the URL of the resource retrieved, [...]
info() — return the meta-information of the page, [...]
"""
There's also a third undocumented method: getcode(). Looking at the code[1]
ISTM that the 3 getters (geturl(), info(), and getcode()):
1) have an inconsistent interface (why not getinfo() or getheaders()?);
2) they just return the url, headers, and code attributes;
For these two reasons I propose to:
* document the 3 attributes as the suggested way to access this information;
* deprecate the 3 getters;
* avoid to document the now undocumented getcode();
[0]: http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/urllib.request.html
[1]: Lib/urllib/response.py:83
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components: Library (Lib)
keywords: easy
messages: 141756
nosy: ezio.melotti, orsenthil, sandro.tosi
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Deprecate addinfourl getters
versions: Python 3.3
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