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Author tlesher
Recipients tlesher
Date 2008-04-15.15:09:09
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The urllib.quote docstring implies that it quotes only characters in RFC
2396's "reserved" set.

However, urllib.quote currently escapes all characters except those in
an "always_safe" list, which consists of alphanumerics and three
punctuation characters, "_.-".

This behavior is contrary to the RFC, which defines "unreserved"
characters as alphanumerics plus "mark" characters, or "-_.!~*'()".  

The RFC also says:

  Unreserved characters can be escaped without changing the semantics
  of the URI, but this should not be done unless the URI is being used
  in a context that does not allow the unescaped character to appear.

This seems to imply that "always_safe" should correspond to the RFC's
"unreserved" set of "alphanum" | "mark".
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