From a23de873b8aa7cf703c2d911ae550b0941daf961 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Pilgrim <mark@diveintomark.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 06:51:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] mention urllib.parse.parse_qs

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 strings.html | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/strings.html b/strings.html
index 9b97cd0..71f2140 100644
--- a/strings.html
+++ b/strings.html
@@ -268,6 +268,10 @@ experience of years.</samp>
 <li>Finally, Python can turn that list-of-lists into a dictionary simply by passing it to the <code>dict()</code> function.
 </ol>
 
+<blockquote class=note>
+<p><span class=u>&#x261E;</span>The previous example looks a lot like parsing query parameters in a <abbr>URL</abbr>, but real-life <abbr>URL</abbr> parsing is actually more complicated than this. If you&#8217;re dealing with <abbr>URL</abbr> query parameters, you&#8217;re better off using the <a href=http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/urllib.parse.html#urllib.parse.parse_qs><code>urllib.parse.parse_qs()</code></a> function, which handles some non-obvious edge cases.
+</blockquote>
+
 <p class=a>&#x2042;
 
 <h2 id=byte-arrays>Strings vs. Bytes</h2>