issue 14826 - Address the buildbot failure ( explanation msg164973)
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 796b700..c77697c 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
def __init__(self, url, data=None, headers={},
origin_req_host=None, unverifiable=False):
# unwrap('<URL:type://host/path>') --> 'type://host/path'
- self.full_url = unwrap(to_bytes(url))
+ self.full_url = unwrap(url)
self.full_url = quote(self.full_url, safe="%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]|")
self.full_url, self.fragment = splittag(self.full_url)
self.data = data
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 18d03ef..5c05e02 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@
Library
-------
-- Issue #14826: Quote urls in urllib.request.Request identically to how they
- are quoted by urllib.request.URLopener. Allows urls to spaces in them to work
+- Issue #14826: Quote urls in urllib.request.Request similar to how they are
+ quoted by urllib.request.URLopener. Allows urls to spaces in them to work
transparently with urllib.request.urlopen(...). Patch contributed by Stephen
Thorne.