From 82a3f8afcb0716cf524b4f731e25b4d6dca554a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florent Xicluna <florent.xicluna@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:30:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Silence the BytesWarning, due to patch r83294 for #9301

---
 Lib/urllib/parse.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/urllib/parse.py b/Lib/urllib/parse.py
index 44f4a4b13e7..48b187ac6d9 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/parse.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/parse.py
@@ -314,7 +314,9 @@ def unquote_to_bytes(string):
     """unquote_to_bytes('abc%20def') -> b'abc def'."""
     # Note: strings are encoded as UTF-8. This is only an issue if it contains
     # unescaped non-ASCII characters, which URIs should not.
-    if string in (b'', ''):
+    if not string:
+        # Is it a string-like object?
+        string.split
         return b''
     if isinstance(string, str):
         string = string.encode('utf-8')