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authorChris McDonough <chrism@plope.com>2011-04-15 17:29:44 -0400
committerChris McDonough <chrism@plope.com>2011-04-15 17:29:44 -0400
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-rw-r--r--pyramid/encode.py7
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diff --git a/pyramid/encode.py b/pyramid/encode.py
index e6c7a969b..9c3a8f7c7 100644
--- a/pyramid/encode.py
+++ b/pyramid/encode.py
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@ _must_quote = {}
def url_quote(s, safe=''):
"""quote('abc def') -> 'abc%20def'
- Faster version of Python stdlib urllib.quote which also quotes
- the '/' character.
-
Each part of a URL, e.g. the path info, the query, etc., has a
different set of reserved characters that must be quoted.
@@ -25,10 +22,10 @@ def url_quote(s, safe=''):
but not necessarily in all of them.
Unlike the default version of this function in the Python stdlib,
- by default, the quote function is intended for quoting individual
+ by default, the url_quote function is intended for quoting individual
path segments instead of an already composed path that might have
'/' characters in it. Thus, it *will* encode any '/' character it
- finds in a string.
+ finds in a string. It is also slightly faster than the stdlib version.
"""
cachekey = (safe, always_safe)
try: