def unquote(string, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'):
"""Replace %xx escapes by their single-character equivalent. The optional
encoding and errors parameters specify how to decode percent-encoded
sequences into Unicode characters, as accepted by the bytes.decode()
method.
By default, percent-encoded sequences are decoded with UTF-8, and invalid
sequences are replaced by a placeholder character.
unquote('abc%20def') -> 'abc def'.
"""
if isinstance(string, bytes):
return unquote_to_bytes(string).decode(encoding, errors)
if '%' not in string:
string.split
return string
if encoding is None:
encoding = 'utf-8'
if errors is None:
errors = 'replace'
bits = _asciire.split(string)
res = [bits[0]]
append = res.append
for i in range(1, len(bits), 2):
append(unquote_to_bytes(bits[i]).decode(encoding, errors))
append(bits[i + 1])
return ''.join(res)