Re: urllib.quote() change in 2.4.2
David Binger <[email protected]>
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On Jan 17, 2006, at 4:34 AM, Oleg Broytmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:02:12PM -0500, David Binger wrote: >> We just noticed that, in Python 2.4.2, >> urllib.quote(u'\xe9') raises a KeyError. >> >> In Python 2.4.1, the exception is not raised, >> and the result is '%E9'. > > In any case you should not try to quote unicode strings. It's > meaningless. Always .encode() it to the client encoding. That is a good and interesting point. Here's the background story, in case anyone is interested. We ran into this here in an old function that renders a link with a quoted "title" in a query string. This was safe until we started supporting unicode and non-ascii characters actually appeared in titles. We'll need to encode first, as you suggest. > Oleg. > -- > Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ > [email protected] > Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. > _______________________________________________ > Quixote-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/quixote-users