New submission from Manuel Jacob <m...@manueljacob.de>: On Python 2, it was possible to recover a percent-encoded byte: >>> from urllib import url2pathname >>> url2pathname('%ff') '\xff'
On Python 3, the byte is decoded using the utf-8 encoding and the "replace" error handler (therefore there’s no way to recover the byte): >>> from urllib.request import url2pathname >>> url2pathname('%ff') '�' For my use case (getting the pathname as bytes), it would be sufficient to specify a different encoding (e.g. latin-1) or a different error handler (e.g. surrogateescape) that makes it possible to recover the byte by encoding the result of url2pathname() such that it roundtrips with the encoding and error handler internally used by url2pathname() for percent-encoded bytes. I’m not simply sending a patch, because this might point to a deeper issue. Suppose there’s the following script: import sys from pathlib import Path from urllib.request import urlopen path = Path(sys.argv[1]) path.write_text('Hello, World!') with urlopen(path.as_uri()) as resp: print(resp.read()) If I call this script with b'/tmp/\xff' as the argument, it fails with the following traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 1507, in open_local_file stats = os.stat(localfile) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/�' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "test_url2pathname.py", line 6, in <module> with urlopen(path.as_uri()) as resp: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 222, in urlopen return opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 525, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 542, in _open result = self._call_chain(self.handle_open, protocol, protocol + File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 502, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 1485, in file_open return self.open_local_file(req) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 1524, in open_local_file raise URLError(exp) urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/�'> So maybe urllib.request.url2pathname() should use the same encoding and error handler as os.fsencode() / os.fsdecode(). ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 371537 nosy: mjacob priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Can’t configure encoding used by urllib.request.url2pathname() _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40983> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com