On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Matt Giuca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > My first post to the list. In fact, first time Python hacker, long-time > Python user though. (Melbourne, Australia). >
Welcome! > Some of you may have seen for the past week or so my bug report on Roundup, > http://bugs.python.org/issue3300 > > I've spent a heap of effort on this patch now so I'd really like to get some > more opinions and have this patch considered for Python 3.0. > Hopefully we can get to it in the near future. Since we are having two more betas (one of this is next week) hopefully there is enough time before hitting a release candidate to have this looked at. > Basically, urllib.quote and unquote seem not to have been updated since > Python 2.5, and because of this they implicitly perform Latin-1 encoding and > decoding (with respect to percent-encoded characters). I think they should > default to UTF-8 for a number of reasons, including that's what other > software such as web browsers use. > > I've submitted a patch which fixes quote and unquote to use UTF-8 by > default. I also added extra arguments allowing the caller to choose the > encoding (after discussion, there was some consensus that this would be > beneficial). I have now completed updating the documentation, writing > extensive test cases, and testing the rest of the standard library for code > breakage - with the result being there wasn't really any, everything seems > to just work nicely with UTF-8. You can read the sordid details of my > investigation in the tracker. > > Firstly, it'd be nice to hear if people think this is desirable behaviour. Based on what is said in this email, it sounds reasonable. > Secondly, if it's feasible to get this patch in Python 3.0. (I think if it > were delayed to Python 3.1, the code breakage wouldn't justify it). If what you are saying is true, then it can probably go in as a bug fix (unless someone else knows something about Latin-1 on the Net that makes this not true). > And > thirdly, if the first two are positive, if anyone would like to review this > patch and check it in. > That I can't say I can necessarily due; have my own bug reports to work through this weekend. =) -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
