Antoine:
> I think if you move the line defining "str" out of the loop, relative
> timings should change quite a bit. Chances are that the random
> functions are not very fast, since they are written in pure Python.

Well I wanted to test throwing lots of different URIs to test the
caching behaviour. You're right though, probably a small % of the time
is spent on calling quote.

Oh well, the defaultdict implementation is in patch10 anyway :) It
cleans Quoter up somewhat, so it's a good thing anyway. Thanks for your
help.