[issue13359] urllib2 doesn't escape spaces in http requests

[Mads Kiilerich]

Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> added the comment:

FWIW, I don't think it is a good idea to escape automatically. It will change the behaviour in a non-backward compatible way for existing applications that pass encoded urls to this function.

I think the existing behaviour is better. The documentation and the failure mode for passing URLs with spaces could however be improved.

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nosy: +kiilerix

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