Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Here's my version of how quote and unquote should be implemented in Python 3.0. I haven't looked at the uses of it in the library, but I'd expect improper uses (and there are lots of them) will break, and thus can be fixed.
Basically, percent-quoting is about creating an ASCII string that can be safely used in URI from an arbitrary sequence of octets. So, my version of quote() takes either a byte sequence or a string, and percent-quotes the unsafe ones, and then returns a str. If a str is supplied on input, it is first converted to UTF-8, then the octets of that encoding are percent-quoted. For unquote, there's no way to tell what the octets of the quoted sequence may mean, so this takes the percent-quoted ASCII string, and returns a byte sequence with the unquoted bytes. For convenience, since the unquoted bytes are often a string in some particular character set encoding, I've also supplied unquote_as_string(), which takes an optional character set, and first unquotes the bytes, then converts them to a str, using that character set encoding, and returns the resulting string. ---------- nosy: +janssen Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11062/myunquote.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3300> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
