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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
>> So you think the broken behavior is the best way to encourage people
>> working with Python 3?  Sounds about right.
> 
> You know, it would be better if you demonstrated that the behaviour is
> broken, rather than asserting it. The fact that a long discussion led to
> the current API is a good hint that it is probably not as broken as you
> make it to be.

Agreed.

The quote/unquote() APIs implement everything you need to
support non-ASCII URLs - they even give you a choice of using
a different encoding for the %-escaped parts of the URL.

Armin, what else do you think you need ?

If you do know the encoding of the URL, then you can easily
convert a bytes URL into a Unicode one.

If not, then it's better to stick to the standards and have the
functions raise an exception if needed.

If you don't want to see errors, use the errors="replace"
error handler or just use "latin-1" as encoding for both
unquote() and quote() - while it's not necessarily correct,
it should get you pretty close to the bytes-behavior you
see in Python 2.x.

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