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-rw-r--r--Lib/urllib/parse.py19
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/parse.py b/Lib/urllib/parse.py
index fa8827a9fa7..66056bf589b 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/parse.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/parse.py
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ def unquote(string, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'):
def parse_qs(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
- encoding='utf-8', errors='replace', max_num_fields=None):
+ encoding='utf-8', errors='replace', max_num_fields=None, separator='&'):
"""Parse a query given as a string argument.
Arguments:
@@ -668,12 +668,15 @@ def parse_qs(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
max_num_fields: int. If set, then throws a ValueError if there
are more than n fields read by parse_qsl().
+ separator: str. The symbol to use for separating the query arguments.
+ Defaults to &.
+
Returns a dictionary.
"""
parsed_result = {}
pairs = parse_qsl(qs, keep_blank_values, strict_parsing,
encoding=encoding, errors=errors,
- max_num_fields=max_num_fields)
+ max_num_fields=max_num_fields, separator=separator)
for name, value in pairs:
if name in parsed_result:
parsed_result[name].append(value)
@@ -683,7 +686,7 @@ def parse_qs(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
def parse_qsl(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
- encoding='utf-8', errors='replace', max_num_fields=None):
+ encoding='utf-8', errors='replace', max_num_fields=None, separator='&'):
"""Parse a query given as a string argument.
Arguments:
@@ -706,19 +709,25 @@ def parse_qsl(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
max_num_fields: int. If set, then throws a ValueError
if there are more than n fields read by parse_qsl().
+ separator: str. The symbol to use for separating the query arguments.
+ Defaults to &.
+
Returns a list, as G-d intended.
"""
qs, _coerce_result = _coerce_args(qs)
+ if not separator or (not isinstance(separator, (str, bytes))):
+ raise ValueError("Separator must be of type string or bytes.")
+
# If max_num_fields is defined then check that the number of fields
# is less than max_num_fields. This prevents a memory exhaustion DOS
# attack via post bodies with many fields.
if max_num_fields is not None:
- num_fields = 1 + qs.count('&') + qs.count(';')
+ num_fields = 1 + qs.count(separator)
if max_num_fields < num_fields:
raise ValueError('Max number of fields exceeded')
- pairs = [s2 for s1 in qs.split('&') for s2 in s1.split(';')]
+ pairs = [s1 for s1 in qs.split(separator)]
r = []
for name_value in pairs:
if not name_value and not strict_parsing: