'Split this URL\'s path into its components.
@param unquote: whether to remove %-encoding from the returned strings.
@param copy: (ignored, do not use)
@return: The components of C{self.path}
@rtype: L{list} of L{bytes}'

def pathList(self, unquote=False, copy=True):

    segments = self._url.path
    mapper = (lambda x: x.encode('ascii'))
    if unquote:
        mapper = (lambda x, m=mapper: m(urlunquote(x)))
    return ([''] + [mapper(segment) for segment in segments])
