Issue #25576: Merge www-form-urlencoded doc from 3.4 into 3.5

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
index 40098d0..21c82f5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
@@ -525,10 +525,11 @@ task isn't already covered by the URL parsing functions above.
                         errors=None, quote_via=quote_plus)
 
    Convert a mapping object or a sequence of two-element tuples, which may
-   contain :class:`str` or :class:`bytes` objects, to a "percent-encoded"
-   string.  If the resultant string is to be used as a *data* for POST
-   operation with :func:`~urllib.request.urlopen` function, then it should be
-   properly encoded to bytes, otherwise it would result in a :exc:`TypeError`.
+   contain :class:`str` or :class:`bytes` objects, to a percent-encoded ASCII
+   text string.  If the resultant string is to be used as a *data* for POST
+   operation with the :func:`~urllib.request.urlopen` function, then
+   it should be encoded to bytes, otherwise it would result in a
+   :exc:`TypeError`.
 
    The resulting string is a series of ``key=value`` pairs separated by ``'&'``
    characters, where both *key* and *value* are quoted using the *quote_via*