Hi. I've been using Py3K successfully for a while now, and have some questions about urlencode(). 1) The docs mention that items sent to urlencode() are quoted using quote_plus(). However, instances of type "bytes" are not handled like they are with quote_plus() because urlencode() converts the parameters to strings first (which then puts a small "b" and single quotes around a textual representation of the bytes). It just seems to me that instances of type "bytes" should be passed directly to quote_plus(). That would complicate the code just a bit, but would end up being much more intuitive and useful. 2) If urlencode() relies so heavily on quote_plus(), then why doesn't it include the extra encoding-related parameters that quote_plus() takes? 3) Regarding the following code fragment in urlencode(): k = quote_plus(str(k)) if isinstance(v, str): v = quote_plus(v) l.append(k + '=' + v) elif isinstance(v, str): # is there a reasonable way to convert to ASCII? # encode generates a string, but "replace" or "ignore" # lose information and "strict" can raise UnicodeError v = quote_plus(v.encode("ASCII","replace")) l.append(k + '=' + v) I don't understand how the "elif" section is invoked, as it uses the same condition as the "if" section. Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this issue. I could submit a patch for urlencode() to better explain my ideas if that would be useful. - Dan