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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Jul 30 18:27:02 CEST 2008

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:09 AM, André Malo <nd at perlig.de> wrote:

I'm actually in favour of encoding bytes only back and forth. A useful extension would be another function which wraps quote/unquote and encodes and decodes characters.

I'd reverse this. By all means, add a new pair of functions that is bytes in / bytes out. But keep the existing functions purely string in / string out, hardcoded to UTF-8. People wanting another encoding can use the bytes functions and explicit encode / decode calls.

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