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-rw-r--r--Lib/urllib/request.py2
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 796b700f99..c77697c576 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ class Request:
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 18d03efa49..5c05e0257c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ Core and Builtins
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.