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What are you supposed to use instead of urllib? Seems like an oversight to write all about how you considered removing it without saying whether there is a repl

What are you supposed to use instead of urllib? Seems like an oversight to write all about how you considered removing it without saying whether there is a replacement.

djbeadle 5y ago
From the proposal to remove urllib linked in the article: https://lwn.net/ml/python-dev/CABqyc3wGDmdnDjrhYh0SxT_Tgr5M8Za3JTw4CUapnSOVQ-ci3A@mail.gmail.com/ https://lwn.net/ml/python-dev/CABqyc3wGDmdnDjrhYh0SxT_Tgr5M8... From: Victor Stinner <vstinner-AT-python.org> To: Python Dev <Python-Dev-AT-python.org> Subject: [Python-Dev] It's now time to deprecate the stdlib urllib module Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 15:08:40 +0100 Message-ID: <CABqyc3wGDmdnDjrhYh0SxT_Tgr5M8Za3JTw4CUapnSOVQ-ci3A@mail.gmail.com> Hi, I propose to deprecate the urllib module in Python 3.11. It would emit a DeprecationWarning which warn users, so users should consider better alternatives like urllib3 or httpx: well known modules, better maintained, more secure, support HTTP/2 (httpx), etc.
- tyingq 5y ago
  Those don't come with python though, so the standard library wouldn't have any similar functionality. And both of the suggestions have a direct dependency on urllib. Edit: So who maintains urllib, a dependency for the "better" libraries, if you push it out of python core?
  - DangitBobby 5y ago
    Yep. They kind of hint at the end that the real solution is to actually fix urllib. Removing it is a mistake IMO, even if it's for "security reasons" but especially if it's for a bad API. I'd rather it be included and kind of broken than removed.
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