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Adding note about url needing to be encoded when provided to the urlopen function as well as the Request class.
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Doc/library/urllib.request.rst

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.. function:: urlopen(url, data=None[, timeout], *, cafile=None, capath=None, cadefault=False, context=None)
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Open the URL *url*, which can be either a string or a
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:class:`Request` object.
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Open *url*, which can be either a string containing a valid, properly
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encoded, URL or a :class:`Request` object.
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*data* must be an object specifying additional data to be sent to the
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server, or ``None`` if no such data is needed. See :class:`Request`
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This class is an abstraction of a URL request.
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*url* should be a string containing a valid URL.
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*url* should be a string containing a valid, properly encoded, URL.
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*data* must be an object specifying additional data to send to the
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server, or ``None`` if no such data is needed. Currently HTTP

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