Daniel Diniz <aja...@gmail.com> added the comment: I think Toshio's usecase is important enough to deserve a fix (patch attached) or a special-cased error message. IMO, newbies trying to fix failures from urlopen may have a hard time figuring out the maze:
urlopen -> _opener -> open -> _open -> _call_chain -> http_open -> do_open (and that's before leaving urllib!). >>> from urllib.request import urlopen >>> url = 'http://localhost/ñ.html' >>> urlopen(url).read() Traceback (most recent call last): [...] UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xf1' in position 5: ordinal not in range(128) If the newbie isn't completely lost by then, how about: >>> from urllib.parse import quote >>> urlopen(quote(url)).read() Traceback (most recent call last): [...] ValueError: unknown url type: http%3A//localhost/%C3%B1.html ---------- keywords: +patch nosy: +ajaksu2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12986/non_ascii_path.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3991> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
