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I want to encode URL with special characters. In my case it is: š, ä, õ, æ, ø (it is not a finite list).
urllib2.quote(symbol) gives very strange result, which is not correct. How else these symbols can be encoded?
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s = urllib2. quote(s) # URL encode. # Now "s" is encoded the way you need it. It works!
You can encode multiple parameters at once using urllib. parse. urlencode() function. This is a convenience function which takes a dictionary of key value pairs or a sequence of two-element tuples and uses the quote_plus() function to encode every value.
In Python, we can URL encode a query string using the urlib. parse module, which further contains a function urlencode() for encoding the query string in URL.
urllib2.quote("Grønlandsleiret, Oslo, Norway")gives a%27Gr%B8nlandsleiret%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%27
Use UTF-8 explicitly then:
urllib2.quote(u"Grønlandsleiret, Oslo, Norway".encode('UTF-8'))
And always state the encoding in your file. See PEP 0263.
A non-UTF-8 string needs to be decode first, then encoded:
# You've got a str "s".
s = s.decode('latin-1') # (or what the encoding might be …)
# Now "s" is a unicode object.
s = s.encode('utf-8') # Encode as UTF-8 string.
# Now "s" is a str again.
s = urllib2.quote(s) # URL encode.
# Now "s" is encoded the way you need it.
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