[issue44520] In Lib/urllib/parse.py quote_from_bytes, exception is thrown if bs = None

[Eric V. Smith]

Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> added the comment:

I agree this should be closed (and I'm closing it). I don't see any reason why this function should do something other than raise TypeError if given bs=None. If you want that behavior, write a small wrapper function.

The "if not bs" check appears to be an optimization for the case of zero-length input. Hopefully the code would continue to work without that test (or instead testing for len(bs)==0), but in my opinion it's not worth the risk of removing or changing it.

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stage:  -> resolved
status: pending -> closed

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