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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst index fbbabca..ac04f99 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst @@ -519,10 +519,11 @@ task isn't already covered by the URL parsing functions above. .. function:: urlencode(query, doseq=False, safe='', encoding=None, errors=None) 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 :func:`quote_plus` |