cookies.get behavior

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Pardon me... I'm not proficient in python... This library appears to be the de-facto reference for http clients in other programming languages as well..
it seems like many http get clients return raw cookie values. and require raw cookie names... because... that's what this library does

The subtitle for this project is "http for humans"....
This human isn't interested in the transport-layer encoding.. I want the human value

With all that said... why :

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Expected Result

I would expect response.cookies.get() to a) expect a decoded name as a parameter and b) return a decoded (human) value

Actual Result

Encoded value returned if name was encoded for http transport... I must pass encoded name to get value

response headers:

Set-Cookie: dingus=foo%3Bbar; path=/
Set-Cookie: a%3Bb=foo%3Bbar; path=/

[nav] In [1]: import requests                                                                                                     

[ins] In [2]: r = requests.get('http://localhost/cookietest')                                                                          

[ins] In [3]: r.cookies.get('dingus')                                                                                             
Out[3]: 'foo%3Bbar'

[ins] In [4]: r.cookies.get('a;b')                                                                                                

[ins] In [5]: r.cookies.get('a%3Bb')                                                                                              
Out[5]: 'foo%3Bbar'