[issue11315] Fix type regression in http.cookies.load (want bytes, not str)

Chad Whitacre added the comment: Here's a patch with a couple failings tests for the type regression in 3.x. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file40901/failing-tests-for-type-regression.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue11315] Fix type regression in http.cookies.load (want bytes, not str)

Changes by Chad Whitacre : -- title: Fix/add unicode support in Cookie module? -> Fix type regression in http.cookies.load (want bytes, not str) versions: +Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 -Python 2.7 ___

[issue11315] Fix type regression in http.cookies.load (want bytes, not str)

Chad Whitacre added the comment: Here's a patch that fixes the two new failing tests. Now a bunch of other tests are busted. :-) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file40903/fix-the-two-new-tests.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue11315] Fix type regression in http.cookies.load (want bytes, not str)

R. David Murray added the comment: If strings and values are constrained to be ascii, there is no obvious reason to use bytes. I don't see a bug here in python3. -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker

[issue11315] Fix type regression in http.cookies.load (want bytes, not str)

Chad Whitacre added the comment: Here's a start on converting to bytes everywhere for cookies. I'm not sure I fully understand the library's original worldview on type conversion. There's a value_{decode,encode} facility, and in the test suite attribute values in particular are often not even