Aye, me mateys, In Python 3 the parrrsing function of urllib do not work with bytes. What's the prrrroblem? I tell you: U'RLs only have a charrrrrset rrecommendation and sometimes you have to deal with URL encoded stuff that does not contain unicode data. I tried to crrreate a patch for urllib but it appears that you have to rrrrrreplicate ParseResult for byte strrrrings which seems wrong to me. Does anyone rrremember the rrreasons why urllib was not designed to work on bytes interrrnaly and only convert to unicode before/after converrrrrsion? But maybe we could also add IRI functions to that module, or add a irilib that allows the conversion between U'RIs and I'RIs. urllib depending on unicode strrrrings is for me the biggest rrreason to base WSGI for Python 3 exlusively on unicode. Yo ho, that's it frrom me. Shiver my timbers! Arrrrrmin