Make a new urllib package .
It consists of code from urllib, urllib2, urlparse, and robotparser.
The old modules have all been removed. The new package has five
submodules: urllib.parse, urllib.request, urllib.response,
urllib.error, and urllib.robotparser. The urllib.request.urlopen()
function uses the url opener from urllib2.
Note that the unittests have not been renamed for the
beta, but they will be renamed in the future.
Joint work with Senthil Kumaran.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 07c5edd..fe4c07c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -81,6 +81,15 @@
Library
-------
+- a new ``urllib`` package was created. It consists of code from
+ ``urllib``, ``urllib2``, ``urlparse``, and ``robotparser``. The old
+ modules have all been removed. The new package has five submodules:
+ ``urllib.parse``, ``urllib.request``, ``urllib.response``,
+ ``urllib.error``, and ``urllib.robotparser``. The
+ ``urllib.request.urlopen()`` function uses the url opener from
+ ``urllib2``. (Note that the unittests have not been renamed for the
+ beta, but they will be renamed in the future.)
+
- rfc822 has been removed in favor of the email package.
- mimetools has been removed in favor of the email package.