Matt Giuca <matt.gi...@gmail.com> added the comment:
If you're going the way of option 2, I would strongly advise against relying on
the KeyError. The fact that a KeyError is raised by urllib.quote is not part of
it's specification, it's a bug/quirk in the implementation (which is now
unlikely to be change, but it's unsafe to rely on it).
Robotparser should encode the string, if and only if it is a unicode string,
with ('ascii', 'strict'), catch the UnicodeEncodeError, and raise the TypeError
you suggested. This will have precisely the same behaviour as your proposed
option 2 (will work fine for byte strings and Unicode strings with ASCII-only
characters, but raise a TypeError on Unicode strings with non-ASCII characters)
without relying on the KeyError from urllib.quote.
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