[issue12910] urrlib.quote quotes too many chars, e.g., '()'

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[issue12910] urrlib.quote quotes too many chars, e.g., '()'

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[issue12910] urrlib.quote quotes too many chars, e.g., '()'

Jörn Hees added the comment: It's been a while... nowadays I would mostly change the documentation of the quote function to point out that it is likely to quote more characters than absolutely necessary by SPEC. The function is in place for so long, (even in py3) that people will rely on the

[issue12910] urrlib.quote quotes too many chars, e.g., '()'

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[issue12910] urrlib.quote quotes too many chars, e.g., '()'

Cheryl Sabella added the comment: Issue 16285 updated the urllib.parse.quote() reserved list to add '~'. >From the docstring: def quote(string, safe='/', encoding=None, errors=None): """quote('abc def') -> 'abc%20def' Each part of a URL, e.g. the path info, the query, etc., has a

[issue12910] urrlib.quote quotes too many chars, e.g., '()'

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[issue12910] urrlib.quote quotes too many chars, e.g., '()'

New submission from Jörn Hees nrej9...@joernhees.de: urllib.quote('()') returns '%28%29' Looking into its code it tries to follow RFC 2396 (which is good even though it should follow rfc3986 nowadays), but it doesn't: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2396 (see Appendix A, p.27): ( and ) are in

[issue12910] urrlib.quote quotes too many chars, e.g., '()'

Senthil Kumaran sent...@uthcode.com added the comment: It can aggressively put these chars !~*\'() in the safe list. I will look at the history to see if they originally present and were removed for some reason or they did not make it the list in the first place. If we do add, then it

[issue12910] urrlib.quote quotes too many chars, e.g., '()'

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