[Zope-dev] Speed win in Python's urllib.quote

[Chris Withers]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> Zope makes *heavy* use of urllib.quote (quoting each element of the path
> in 'absolute_url', for instance), which makes it a particularly
> interesting speedup for us.

Indeed, what would be the reasons for NOT including it?
How should we go about measuring the speed difference this makes?

> I'm attaching the speed test and the patch, for consideration by the
> Zope development community:  if this is enough of a win, we might
> consider including a patched urllib in Zope2/Zope3 (or monkey-patching
> urllib.quote).

FWIW, I'd favour a monkey patch of ulrlib.quote, pending inclusion of 
the patch into the Python source tree, which is something we should all 
be fighting for ;-)

cheers,

Chris

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