[issue3300] urllib.quote and unquote - Unicode issues

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

Le mardi 12 août 2008 à 19:37 +0000, Bill Janssen a écrit :
> Let's put string_to_bytes and string_from_bytes into the binascii
> module, as a2b_percent and b2a_percent, respectively.

Well, it's my personal opinion, but I think we should focus on a simple
and straightforward solution for the present issue before beta3 is
released (which is in 8 days now). It has already been difficult to find
a (quasi-)consensus for a simple patch to adapt quote()/unquote() to the
realities of bytes/unicode separation in py3k: witness the length of the
present discussion.

(perhaps a sophisticated solution could still be adopted for 3.1,
especially if it has backwards compatibility in mind)

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