[issue35100] urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes: needs "escape plus" option

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[issue35100] urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes: needs "escape plus" option

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[issue35100] urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes: needs "escape plus" option

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[issue35100] urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes: needs "escape plus" option

Lysandros Nikolaou added the comment: This issue still stands. The output of all three methods is exactly the same as it was when the original question was posted. Would it maybe make sense to add a flag to the unquote_to_bytes method to parse the 'plus' symbol as a space? Or maybe create a

[issue35100] urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes: needs "escape plus" option

New submission from Henry Zhu : `urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes` should have an "escape plus" option, just like `urllib.parse.unquote_plus` does. It's very necessary in some cases: ``` # Say I have a url string: 'a+%2b%c0'. # In Python2, I can parse it into b'a +\xc0' with urllib.unquote_plus