urllib.unquote and unicode

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Duncan Booth schrieb:
> So you believe that because something is only recommended by a standard 
> Python should refuse to implement it?

Yes. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.

This is *deeply* ambiguous; people have been using all kinds of
encodings in http URLs.

> You don't seem to have realised yet, but my objection to the behaviour of 
> urllib.unquote is precisely that it does guess, and it guesses wrongly.

Yes, it seems that this was a bad move.

Regards,
Martin