[New-bugs-announce] [issue13460] urllib methods should demand unicode, instead demand str

[Tyler Starke]

New submission from Tyler Starke <prof.ebral at gmail.com>:

It seems bad practice for urllib methods to demand a str instance and they should demand a unicode instance. By demanding a str instance the default behavior is too demanding, for the web space it is being used, for the English language. We would want Python to extend beyond English when it uses urllib

Currently I am encoding the unicode passed with 'utf-8' and that works.

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components: Library (Lib), Unicode
messages: 148165
nosy: Tyler.Starke, ezio.melotti
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: urllib methods should demand unicode, instead demand str
type: behavior

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