Speed-up unquote(), inspired by post from Daniel Walton.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index e21c9a2..ecf5057 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -854,25 +854,23 @@
return selector[1], selector[2:]
return None, selector
-_quoteprog = None
def unquote(s):
- global _quoteprog
- if _quoteprog is None:
- import re
- _quoteprog = re.compile('%[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]')
-
- i = 0
- n = len(s)
- res = []
- while 0 <= i < n:
- match = _quoteprog.search(s, i)
- if not match:
- res.append(s[i:])
- break
- j = match.start(0)
- res.append(s[i:j] + chr(string.atoi(s[j+1:j+3], 16)))
- i = j+3
- return string.joinfields(res, '')
+ mychr = chr
+ myatoi = string.atoi
+ list = string.split(s, '%')
+ res = [list[0]]
+ myappend = res.append
+ del list[0]
+ for item in list:
+ if item[1:2]:
+ try:
+ myappend(mychr(myatoi(item[:2], 16))
+ + item[2:])
+ except:
+ myappend(item)
+ else:
+ myappend(item)
+ return string.join(res, "")
def unquote_plus(s):
if '+' in s: