[issue16423] urllib data URL recipe

Mathias Panzenböck added the comment: New patch. Instead of adding the data URL support to the doc as a recipe I added it to urllib.request directly. I think this is better and justified, because the old legacy URLopener had (some kind) of support for data URLs. OT: I think that the legacy URL

[issue16423] urllib data URL recipe

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[issue16423] urllib data URL recipe

New submission from Mathias Panzenböck: I think it would be really helpful if urllib would support data URLs. However, I was told on the python-ideas mailing list that it would probably only added as recipe in the documentation. The attached patch adds such an recipe to the urllib.request docu