commit aad2ee01561f260c69af1951c0d6fcaf75c4d41b
author Stein Karlsen <karlsen.stein@gmail.com> Mon Oct 14 12:36:29 2019 +0200
committer Tal Einat <taleinat+github@gmail.com> Mon Oct 14 13:36:29 2019 +0300
tree 6ffb53582b94065c4eb04012aaffa49a1af5422f
parent 9cb51f4e20033f5fd4fed46036e347f263bb6d5b

bpo-32498: urllib.parse.unquote also accepts bytes (GH-7768)

Lib/urllib/parse.py

diff --git a/Lib/urllib/parse.py b/Lib/urllib/parse.py
index b660878..3a38dc1 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/parse.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/parse.py
@@ -631,6 +631,8 @@
 
     unquote('abc%20def') -> 'abc def'.
     """
+    if isinstance(string, bytes):
+        return unquote_to_bytes(string).decode(encoding, errors)
     if '%' not in string:
         string.split
         return string