From c17686f071c6f5b5d20366ae32188327a36e282e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 20:44:50 -0400 Subject: Issue #13866: add *quote_via* argument to urlencode. Patch by samwyse, completed by Arnon Yaari, and reviewed by Martin Panter. --- Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst') diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst index 3ecdda18d7..800f8301c6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst @@ -519,7 +519,8 @@ task isn't already covered by the URL parsing functions above. Example: ``unquote_to_bytes('a%26%EF')`` yields ``b'a&\xef'``. -.. function:: urlencode(query, doseq=False, safe='', encoding=None, errors=None) +.. function:: urlencode(query, doseq=False, safe='', encoding=None, \ + errors=None, quote_via=quote_plus) Convert a mapping object or a sequence of two-element tuples, which may contain :class:`str` or :class:`bytes` objects, to a "percent-encoded" @@ -528,8 +529,16 @@ task isn't already covered by the URL parsing functions above. 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* + characters, where both *key* and *value* are quoted using the *quote_via* + function. By default, :func:`quote_plus` is used to quote the values, which + means spaces are quoted as a ``'+'`` character and '/' characters are + encoded as ``%2F``, which follows the standard for GET requests + (``application/x-www-form-urlencoded``). An alternate function that can be + passed as *quote_via* is :func:`quote`, which will encode spaces as ``%20`` + and not encode '/' characters. For maximum control of what is quoted, use + ``quote`` and specify a value for *safe*. + + When a sequence of two-element tuples is used as the *query* argument, the first element of each tuple is a key and the second is a value. The value element in itself can be a sequence and in that case, if the optional parameter *doseq* is evaluates to *True*, individual @@ -538,7 +547,7 @@ task isn't already covered by the URL parsing functions above. string will match the order of parameter tuples in the sequence. The *safe*, *encoding*, and *errors* parameters are passed down to - :func:`quote_plus` (the *encoding* and *errors* parameters are only passed + *quote_via* (the *encoding* and *errors* parameters are only passed when a query element is a :class:`str`). To reverse this encoding process, :func:`parse_qs` and :func:`parse_qsl` are @@ -550,6 +559,9 @@ task isn't already covered by the URL parsing functions above. .. versionchanged:: 3.2 Query parameter supports bytes and string objects. + .. versionadded:: 3.5 + *quote_via* parameter. + .. seealso:: -- cgit v1.2.1