bpo-32498: urllib.parse.unquote also accepts bytes (GH-7768)
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
index 49276da..84d289b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@
percent-encoded sequences into Unicode characters, as accepted by the
:meth:`bytes.decode` method.
- *string* must be a :class:`str`.
+ *string* may be either a :class:`str` or a :class:`bytes`.
*encoding* defaults to ``'utf-8'``.
*errors* defaults to ``'replace'``, meaning invalid sequences are replaced
@@ -579,6 +579,11 @@
Example: ``unquote('/El%20Ni%C3%B1o/')`` yields ``'/El Niño/'``.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.9
+ *string* parameter supports bytes and str objects (previously only str).
+
+
+
.. function:: unquote_plus(string, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')