def parse_qsl(qs, keep_blank_values=False, strict_parsing=False,
encoding='utf-8', errors='replace'):
"""Parse a query given as a string argument.
Arguments:
qs: percent-encoded query string to be parsed
keep_blank_values: flag indicating whether blank values in
percent-encoded queries should be treated as blank strings.
A true value indicates that blanks should be retained as blank
strings. The default false value indicates that blank values
are to be ignored and treated as if they were not included.
strict_parsing: flag indicating what to do with parsing errors. If
false (the default), errors are silently ignored. If true,
errors raise a ValueError exception.
encoding and errors: specify how to decode percent-encoded sequences
into Unicode characters, as accepted by the bytes.decode() method.
Returns a list, as G-d intended.
"""
qs, _coerce_result = _coerce_args(qs)
pairs = [s2 for s1 in qs.split('&') for s2 in s1.split(';')]
r = []
for name_value in pairs:
if not name_value and not strict_parsing:
continue
nv = name_value.split('=', 1)
if len(nv) != 2:
if strict_parsing:
raise ValueError("bad query field: %r" % (name_value,))
# Handle case of a control-name with no equal sign
if keep_blank_values:
nv.append('')
else:
continue
if len(nv[1]) or keep_blank_values:
name = nv[0].replace('+', ' ')
name = unquote(name, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
name = _coerce_result(name)
value = nv[1].replace('+', ' ')
value = unquote(value, encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
value = _coerce_result(value)
r.append((name, value))
return r