George Sakkis wrote: > The following snippet results in different outcome for (at least) the > last three major releases: > >>>> import urllib >>>> urllib.unquote(u'%94')
> # Python 2.4.2 > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x94 in position 0: > ordinal not in range(128) Python 2.4.3 (#3, Aug 23 2006, 09:40:15) [GCC 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import urllib >>> urllib.unquote(u"%94") u'\x94' >>> >From the above I infer that the 2.4.2 behaviour was considered a bug. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list