Hi. I've been using Py3K successfully for a while now, and have some
questions about urlencode().
1) The docs mention that items sent to urlencode() are quoted using
quote_plus(). However, instances of type "bytes" are not handled like
they are with quote_plus() because urlencode() converts the parameters
to strings first (which then puts a small "b" and single quotes around a
textual representation of the bytes). It just seems to me that
instances of type "bytes" should be passed directly to quote_plus().
That would complicate the code just a bit, but would end up being much
more intuitive and useful.
2) If urlencode() relies so heavily on quote_plus(), then why doesn't it
include the extra encoding-related parameters that quote_plus() takes?
3) Regarding the following code fragment in urlencode():
k = quote_plus(str(k))
if isinstance(v, str):
v = quote_plus(v)
l.append(k + '=' + v)
elif isinstance(v, str):
# is there a reasonable way to convert to ASCII?
# encode generates a string, but "replace" or "ignore"
# lose information and "strict" can raise UnicodeError
v = quote_plus(v.encode("ASCII","replace"))
l.append(k + '=' + v)
I don't understand how the "elif" section is invoked, as it uses the
same condition as the "if" section.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this issue. I could submit a
patch for urlencode() to better explain my ideas if that would be useful.
- Dan
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