https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/89e2a5e0cbace2b3703bd6c0228350375fc298c7 commit: 89e2a5e0cbace2b3703bd6c0228350375fc298c7 branch: 3.13 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: orsenthil <[email protected]> date: 2026-07-09T05:18:34Z summary:
[3.13] gh-130578: clarify urllib.parse.quote parameter defaults behavior (GH-130598) (#153385) gh-130578: clarify urllib.parse.quote parameter defaults behavior (GH-130598) (cherry picked from commit bc9bb7386597e22693662f489a7474998788e228) Co-authored-by: Kanishk Pachauri <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst index 752837593c7ca6..e501c6b29b2652 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst @@ -593,8 +593,9 @@ task isn't already covered by the URL parsing functions above. The optional *encoding* and *errors* parameters specify how to deal with non-ASCII characters, as accepted by the :meth:`str.encode` method. - *encoding* defaults to ``'utf-8'``. - *errors* defaults to ``'strict'``, meaning unsupported characters raise a + Although these parameters default to ``None`` in the function signature, + when processing :class:`str` inputs, *encoding* effectively defaults to ``'utf-8'`` + and *errors* to ``'strict'``, meaning unsupported characters raise a :class:`UnicodeEncodeError`. *encoding* and *errors* must not be supplied if *string* is a :class:`bytes`, or a :class:`TypeError` is raised. _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
