Adam Nelson added the comment:
This seems a bit serious for inclusion in 2.7 IMHO. urllib is used in all
sorts of hackish ways in the wild and I really wonder if this is going to
cause more problems for people than it's worth. The 3.x series alone
seems like the best place for this
Adam Nelson added the comment:
I can't think of too many specific scenarios. It just seems like a non-
trivial behavior change (or rather, it is trivial but with possibly far
reaching ramifications).
One issue I see is that the ticket morphed from just dealing with space
characters to
