Message 188264 - Python tracker
I had added a note in the documentation c3656dca65e7 conveying that splittype, splithost should not be relied upon, and urlparse should be used for parsing. Also, Python3 does not include these in __all__ - It is in Python2 for backwards compatibility purposes. It is not possible provide deprecation warning to things we leave off from __all__ from subsequent versions of python. I consider this request as resolved. Thanks!