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| author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-03-15 18:11:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-03-15 18:11:16 -0700 |
| commit | 6b3434ae04f32a20e20498ec5a594d527e1c24e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 47bc983269e09238ee3fdca6377a8dd6b855bb30 /Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst | |
| parent | 73277fe0ebd07b470e43804c24282a4947a63341 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-6b3434ae04f32a20e20498ec5a594d527e1c24e3.tar.gz | |
Explain the use of charset parameter with Content-Type header. Issue11082
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst index aece7149ef..b33e8fe1ed 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst @@ -512,9 +512,10 @@ task isn't already covered by the URL parsing functions above. Convert a mapping object or a sequence of two-element tuples, which may either be a :class:`str` or a :class:`bytes`, to a "percent-encoded" - string. The resultant string must be converted to bytes using the - user-specified encoding before it is sent to :func:`urlopen` as the optional - *data* argument. + string. If the resultant string is to be used as a *data* for POST + operation with :func:`urlopen` function, then it should be properly encoded + to bytes, otherwise it would result in a :exc:`TypeError`. + The resulting string is a series of ``key=value`` pairs separated by ``'&'`` characters, where both *key* and *value* are quoted using :func:`quote_plus` above. When a sequence of two-element tuples is used as the *query* |