bpo-8280 fixed an issue where the fragment was being sent to the server (and returned by get_selector).

Unfortunately the fix means that the "full" URL stored in the Request no longer includes the fragment either.

This is in contradiction to the documentation which states:

 Request.get_full_url()
  Return the URL given in the constructor.

Yet:

 >>> import urllib2
 >>> urllib2.Request("http://host/path#fragment").get_full_url()
 'http://host/path'

The particular use case is a custom scheme handler, which should be able to use the whole of the opaque part of the URL to operate. Ie, our code wants to do something like this:

urllib2.Request("foo://opaquestring#opaquestring").get_full_url()

This has been fixed with issue bpo-11703, latest version of Python 2.7 does not exhibit this behaviour anymore:

Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 14:24:46) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win
32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import urllib2
>>> urllib2.Request('http://host/path#fragment').get_full_url()
'http://host/path#fragment'

As Santosa said, this was discovered and fixed in 2.7 itself, surprised that you discovered it in any release Jon. If it was from a checkout, please update.

Just to confirm that it was a release, but 2.7.1 so not the current. Doesn't appear to happen in Python 2.7 (as shipped with Fedora Core 14) or in Python 2.7.2.

C:\>\Python27\python.exe
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 17:19:03) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import urllib2
>>> urllib2.Request("http://host/path#fragment").get_full_url()
'http://host/path'
>>>

Upgrading our affected Windows boxes to Python 2.7.2 seems to solve the problem.

We're happy for this bug to remain closed.