[Python-Dev] urllib.quote and unquote - Unicode issues (original) (raw)

Matt Giuca matt.giuca at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 14:55:45 CEST 2008

This whole discussion circles too much, I think. Maybe it should be pepped?

The issue isn't circular. It's been patched and tested, then a whole lot of people agreed including Guido. Then you and Bill wanted the bytes functionality back. So I wrote that in there too, and Bill at least said that was sufficient.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008, Bill Janssen wrote:

But: OK, OK, I yield. Though I still think this is a bad idea, I'll shut up if we can also add "unquoteasbytes" which returns a byte sequence instead of a string. I'll just change my code to use that.

We've reached, to quote Guido, "as close as consensus as we can get on this issue".

There is a bug in Python. I've proposed a working fix, and nobody else has. Guido okayed it. I made all the changes the community suggested. What more needs to be discussed here? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20080806/5cfa27a4/attachment.htm>

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