[issue20559] urllib/http fail to sanitize a non-ascii url

2014-02-07 Thread Bill Winslow
Bill Winslow added the comment: Follow up -- I need to use urllib.parse.quote to safely encode a url -- though if I may be so bold, I submit that since much of the goal of Python 3 was to make unicode "just work", I the (stupid) user shouldn't have to remember to safely enco

[issue20559] urllib/http fail to sanitize a non-ascii url

2014-02-07 Thread Bill Winslow
New submission from Bill Winslow: The following code will produce a UnicodeEncodeError about a character being non-ascii: from urllib import request, parse, error url = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio Vallejo-Nájera' req = request.Request(url) response = reque

[issue19744] ensurepip should refuse to install pip if SSL/TLS is not available

2013-11-25 Thread Bill Winslow
Bill Winslow added the comment: I've stumbled upon what appears to be a related issue, but I'm not sure it deserves its own bug report. I compiled 3.4 on my LMDE (so essentially Debian testing) system, and aside from not building tkinter, various compression modules, etc., all we

[issue14434] Tutorial link in "help()" in 3.2.2

2012-03-28 Thread Bill Winslow
New submission from Bill Winslow : I installed "python3" to get into a good scripting language. I ran "python3" and it said type "help". I did and it said type "help()" for interactive help, or "help(object)" for specific help. Just looking to