Patch to rename HTMLParser module to lower_case

[paulsmith]

BPO	1002
Nosy	@brettcannon, @orsenthil
Files	rename-html-parser.diff rename-html-parser-fix-imports.diff

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title = 'Patch to rename HTMLParser module to lower_case'
updated_at = <Date 2008-05-16.04:42:28.104>
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[paulsmith]

HTMLParser is renamed to html_parser.

[paulsmith]

Patch to 2to3 fix_imports.

[paulsmith]

Note that patch doesn't include svn mv [Lib/HTMLParser.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/HTMLParser.py) [Lib/html_parser.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/html_parser.py).

[orsenthil]

what is this and other series of patches you have submitted, paulsmith?
I fail to understand. Why is the need for changing Library? You are just
adding up SPAM here.

[paulsmith]

I am participating in the Python Sprint here at Google, and was just
going through the Py3k Sprint Tasks spreadsheet, one of them being to
rename standard library modules which use CamelCase to
lower_and_underscore, the more modern naming.

[orsenthil]

But your "standalone diffs" will break things and dependencies with
other modules, so I was worried about them. Are you taking care of them all?

[paulsmith]

I grep'd for HTMLParser module imports in other standard library
modules, renamed, and ran the unit tests. I also updated the mapping in
2to3's fix_imports.py. The only thing I can't do is the actual svn mv
to rename the module itself.

Is part of the problem that this issue was initially flagged as Python
2.6? It's supposed to be 3.0, but that flag wasn't available yesterday
when I opened it.

[collinwinter]

orsenthil: that this will break external modules is completely
acceptable. Those modules won't work out-of-the-box with Python 3
anyway, and hopefully Paul's patch to 2to3 will alleviate some of the
burden.

[dubois]

Hoping I have learned to spell, another test.

[brettcannon]

Do note that HTMLParse is slated to become html.parser in 3.0, so these
patches are out-of-date. They can be used, though, to possibly help all
references to HTMLParser (although 2to3 should handle that).

[brettcannon]

Closing as out of date to try to make the number of PEP-3108 issues more
manageable. HTMLParser is becoming html.parser in 3.0.