[issue18857] urlencode of a None value uses the string 'None'

[James Addison]

James Addison <jay+bpo at jp-hosting.net> added the comment:

The pair of pull requests below implement None-preserving urlencode and parse_qs* via a default-disabled flag 'standalone_keys'.

- https://bugs.python.org/pull_request19259
- https://bugs.python.org/pull_request19264

(they're also already linked with this issue, thanks to the neat GitHub/BPO integration)

A benefit of the proposed serialization changes is that developers can opt-in to a scheme in which "{'a': None}" and "{'a': ''}" do not collide to the same encoded representation.

Would it be possible to re-open this issue for discussion?

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