Message 391238 - Python tracker

It is possible to get valid ParseResult from the urlparse function even for a non-numeric port value. Only by requesting the port it fails[1].
Would it be an improvement if _checknetloc[2] validates the value of port properly?


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Python 3.8.5 (default, Jan 27 2021, 15:41:15) 
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
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>>> from urllib.parse import urlparse
>>> uri = 'xx://foo:bar'
>>> uri_parts = urlparse(uri)
>>> uri_parts.netloc
'foo:bar'
>>> uri_parts.port
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/parse.py", line 174, in port
    raise ValueError(message) from None
ValueError: Port could not be cast to integer value as 'bar'
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[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e1903e11a3d42512effe336026e0c67f602e5848/Lib/urllib/parse.py#L172
[2] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e1903e11a3d42512effe336026e0c67f602e5848/Lib/urllib/parse.py#L416