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

André Malo nd at perlig.de
Wed Aug 6 15:59:28 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 are a lot of quotes around. Including "After the most recent flurry of discussion I've lost track of what's the right thing to do." But I don't talk for other people.

There is a bug in Python. I've proposed a working fix, and nobody else has.

Well, you proposed a patch ;-) It may fix things, it will break a lot. While this was denied over and over again, it's still gonna happen, because the axioms are still not accounting for the reality.

I made all the changes the community suggested.

I don't think so.

What more needs to be discussed here?

Huh? You feel, the discussion is over? Then why are there still open questions? I admit, a lot of discussion is triggered by the assessments you're stating in your posts. Don't take it as a personal offense, it's a simple observation. There were made a lot of statements and nobody even bothered to substantiate them. A PEP could fix that.

But it's a lost issue now. Nobody comes up with an alternative (for various reasons, I suppose). So go ahead, EOD from my side.

nd

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