New submission from Johannes Raggam <thete...@gmail.com>:
urllib.parse.unquote gives an misleading error message when:
>>> import urllib
>>> urllib.parse.unquote(b'bytesurl')
*** TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
while:
>>> urllib.parse.unquote('texturl')
texturl
The correct behavior is to pass a string/text object to unquote. But passing a
bytes object gives a misleading error message.
A fix would be to add an assertion in
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/0250de48199552cdaed5a4fe44b3f9cdb5325363/Lib/urllib/parse.py#L614
like:
>>> assert isinstance(string, str)
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 319396
nosy: thet
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Misleading error message in urllib.parse.unquote
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6
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