[New-bugs-announce] [issue3232] Wrong str->bytes conversion in Lib/encodings/idna.py

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

Lib/encodings/idna.py claims to do the following when `input` is a
string object (lines 183-184, and see comment line 178: "IDNA allows
decoding to operate on Unicode strings, too"):

            # Force to bytes
            input = bytes(input)

This is obviously wrong, lacking an encoding parameter. It doesn't seem
to be covered in the test suite, and I don't know what the proper
semantics should be, so I leave it to someone else to find a fix.

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components: Library (Lib), Unicode
messages: 68931
nosy: pitrou
severity: normal
status: open
title: Wrong str->bytes conversion in Lib/encodings/idna.py
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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