New submission from Tim Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The urllib.quote docstring implies that it quotes only characters in RFC 2396's "reserved" set.
However, urllib.quote currently escapes all characters except those in an "always_safe" list, which consists of alphanumerics and three punctuation characters, "_.-". This behavior is contrary to the RFC, which defines "unreserved" characters as alphanumerics plus "mark" characters, or "-_.!~*'()". The RFC also says: Unreserved characters can be escaped without changing the semantics of the URI, but this should not be done unless the URI is being used in a context that does not allow the unescaped character to appear. This seems to imply that "always_safe" should correspond to the RFC's "unreserved" set of "alphanum" | "mark". ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 65518 nosy: tlesher severity: normal status: open title: urllib.quote() escapes characters unnecessarily and contrary to docs type: behavior versions: Python 2.5 __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2637> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
