urlib.quote gives KeyError in Python 2.4.4 but workin 2.3.5

[nyenyec]

encode seems to solve my problem:

>>> urllib.quote(u'\xe9'.encode('utf-8'))
'%C3%A9'

Cheers,
nyenyec

nyenyec wrote:
> urllib.quote chokes on unicode in 2.4.4.
>
> >>> print sys.version
> 2.4.4 (#1, Oct 18 2006, 10:34:39)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)]
> >>> urllib.quote(u"\xe9")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File
> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4//lib/python2.4/urllib.py",
> line 1117, in quote
>     res = map(safe_map.__getitem__, s)
> KeyError: u'\xe9'
>
> but it seems to work in Python 2.3.5
>
> Python 2.3.5 (#1, Aug 19 2006, 21:31:42)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import sys, urllib
> >>> print sys.version
> 2.3.5 (#1, Aug 19 2006, 21:31:42)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)]
> >>> urllib.quote(u'\xe9')
> '%E9'
>
> Is this a known bug?
> 
> What's the workaround?
> 
> Thanks,
> nyenyec