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Is there a way to urlencode/urldecode a string in Python? I want to emphasize that I want a single string, not a dict. I know of the function that does that to a dict. I could easily construct out of it a function that does that for a string, but I'd rather not have to construct my own function. Does Python have this functionality built-in?
(Answers for both Python 2.7 and 3.3 would be appreciated.)
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URL Encoding (Percent Encoding) URL encoding converts characters into a format that can be transmitted over the Internet. URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. Since URLs often contain characters outside the ASCII set, the URL has to be converted into a valid ASCII format.
A space is assigned number 32, which is 20 in hexadecimal. When you see “%20,” it represents a space in an encoded URL, for example, http://www.example.com/products%20and%20services.html.
URL Encoding ExampleThe ASCII value of space character in decimal is 32 , which when converted to hex comes out to be 20 . Now we just precede the hexadecimal representation with a percent sign ( % ), which gives us the URL encoded value - %20 .
parse. urlencode() method can be used for generating the query string of a URL or data for a POST request.
See the urllib module (docs here), in particular the urllib.quote and urllib.unquote functions.
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urllib.unquote will do the trick
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