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URL compatibility with urlparse

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by locating the URL class and comparing its schema and host attributes with urlparse and urlsplit from Python's urllib.parse. Determine whether the names were intentional and whether compatibility requires renaming or another approach; done means the naming decision and its compatibility impact are resolved.

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Description

For the sake of compatibility with urlparse and urlsplit from the urllib.parse standard lib module should the URL class

  • rename schema to scheme
  • rename host to netloc

or that was on purpose?

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