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authorStein Karlsen <karlsen.stein@gmail.com>2019-10-14 12:36:29 +0200
committerTal Einat <taleinat+github@gmail.com>2019-10-14 13:36:29 +0300
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downloadcpython-git-aad2ee01561f260c69af1951c0d6fcaf75c4d41b.tar.gz
bpo-32498: urllib.parse.unquote also accepts bytes (GH-7768)
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@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ task isn't already covered by the URL parsing functions above.
percent-encoded sequences into Unicode characters, as accepted by the
:meth:`bytes.decode` method.
- *string* must be a :class:`str`.
+ *string* may be either a :class:`str` or a :class:`bytes`.
*encoding* defaults to ``'utf-8'``.
*errors* defaults to ``'replace'``, meaning invalid sequences are replaced
@@ -579,6 +579,11 @@ task isn't already covered by the URL parsing functions above.
Example: ``unquote('/El%20Ni%C3%B1o/')`` yields ``'/El NiƱo/'``.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.9
+ *string* parameter supports bytes and str objects (previously only str).
+
+
+
.. function:: unquote_plus(string, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')