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

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Thu Jul 31 09:47:12 CEST 2008

Of course, it's un-Pythonic to enforce pedantry, and we pedants can use a string->string encoder correctly.

Sure. All I was asking was that we not break the existing usage of the standard library "unquote" by producing a string by assuming a UTF-8 encoded string is what's in those percent-encoded bytes (instead of, say, ISO 2022-JP). Let the "new" function produce a string: "unquote_as_string".

> You really want me to remove the encoding= named argument? And hard-code > UTF-8 into these functions?

A quoting function that accepts bytes must have an encoding argument.

Huh? What would it use it for? The string, if string it is, is already encoded as octets. All it needs to do is percent-encode the reserved octets. So far as I can see, the "unquote_as_string" is the function that needs the encoding. Ah, it's too late, I'll pick this up tomorrow.

Bill

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