[issue29979] cgi.parse_multipart is not consistent with FieldStorage

[Pierre Quentel]

New submission from Pierre Quentel:

In the cgi module, the parse_multipart() function duplicates code from FieldStorage, and the result is not compliant with that of FieldStorage for requests sent with multipart/form-data : for non-file fields, the value associated with a key is a list of *bytes* in parse_multipart() and a list of *strings* for FieldStorage (the bytes decoded with the argument "encoding" passed to FieldStorage()).

I will propose a PR on the Github repo with a version of parse_multipart that uses FieldStorage and returns the same result (values as strings). The function will take an additional argument "encoding".

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 291117
nosy: quentel
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: cgi.parse_multipart is not consistent with FieldStorage
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7

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