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On 2013-06-13 14:05, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I am using the Requests module to access remote URLs. Sometimes I need
> to URL-decode or URL-encode a string (via RFC 3986). Must I import
> urllib or urllib2 just to use their quote() and unquote() methods?

Yes. Do you think there is a problem with doing so?

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