[New-bugs-announce] [issue18857] urlencode of a None value uses the string 'None'

[Joshua Johnston]

New submission from Joshua Johnston:

This is strange behavior. When you encode nulls in other languages you don't get the string 'null' you usually get an empy string. Shouldn't str(None) == ''?

If not str(None) == 'None' and the string representation of a None value should not match a known string

>>> from urllib import urlencode
>>> urlencode({'josh': None})
'josh=None'

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 196314
nosy: Joshua.Johnston
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: urlencode of a None value uses the string 'None'
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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