At 07:20 PM 7/16/2010 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
I'd much rather say be able to say:""" The PATH_INFO environment variable is a ``bytes-with-benefits`` type. To decode it: - First, split it on slashes:: segments = PATH_INFO.split('/') - Then, de-encode each segment's urlencoded portions: urldecoded_segments = [ urllib.unquote(x) for x in segments ] - Then re-encode each urldecoded segment into the encoding expected by your application app_segments = [ str(x, encoding='utf-8') for x in urldecoded_segments ] """
+1. I do wish we actually *had* a bytes-with-benefits type (as I proposed on Python-Dev), but I don't think we can really get one until the language moratorium is over. Plain old bytes are the next best thing.
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