[issue22852] urllib.parse wrongly strips empty #fragment

New submission from Stian Soiland-Reyes: urllib.parse can't handle URIs with empty #fragments. The fragment is removed and not reconsituted. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5 permits empty fragment strings: URI-reference = [ absoluteURI | relativeURI ] [ "#

[issue22852] urllib.parse wrongly strips empty #fragment

Stian Soiland-Reyes added the comment: I tried to make a patch for this, but I found it quite hard as the urllib/parse.py is fairly low-level, e.g. it is constantly encoding/decoding bytes and strings within each URI component. Basically the code assumes there are tuples of strings, with