[stdlib-sig] urllib.parrrrse does not supporrrrt bytes

[Senthil Kumaran]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 08:55:51PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Le dimanche 20 septembre 2009 à 20:48 +0200, Armin Ronacher a écrit :
> > 
> > What is quote_from_bytes used for when quote just calls into it?  Why
> > did this ever become a public interface?  Also once unquote and
> > unquote_plus are fixed, unquote_to_bytes is similarly useless,
> > especially because both of them perform some weird utf-8 conversion if
> > non-bytes are passed to them.
> 
> You should try a search in the python-dev archives. It was introduced

Well, I was discussing with Armin Ronacher at IRC and I pointed him to 
this: http://bugs.python.org/issue3300 

Yes, it did go through considerable amount of discussion. 

> recently, and after quite a bit of discussion I think.
> 
> > I would just fix those and deprecate the explicit unquote_to_bytes and
> > quote_from_bytes for future versions of Python 3.
> > 
> > Any comments on that?
> 
> Regardless of whether the semantics would be better or not, we can't
> change APIs every 2 years, it will make our users furous.

More so for commonly used ones.. 


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