Senthil Kumaran added the comment: I wrongly minutes. Here is actual data of execution speeds. There is magnitude of difference (almost 130x faster). Measured on macbook pro with 2 cores and 4 Gig mem.
Before Patch: $ ./python.exe -m timeit -s "import urllib.parse; x='a%20' * 100000" "urllib.parse.unquote(x)" 10 loops, best of 3: 26.8 sec per loop After Patch: $ ./python.exe -m timeit -s "import urllib.parse; x='a%20' * 100000" "urllib.parse.unquote(x)" 10 loops, best of 3: 205 msec per loop ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1285086> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com