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Date: 2008-10-29 | Tags: python | 2 Comments

import urllib
print urllib.quote_plus("http://www.yahoo.com/")
print urllib.quote_plus("Kruder & Dorfmeister")

Results:

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2F
Kruder+%26+Dorfmeister

It is easy to be drawn to the urlencode function in the Python urllib module documentation. But for simple escaping, only quote_plus, or possibly quote is needed. I believe this is the appropriate solution to Python urlencode annoyance and O'Reilly's Amazon Hack #92.

#1 xav commented on 2009-02-25:

Nice music exemple :)

#2 Eliot commented on 2009-03-04:

xav, it's not actually mine, but glad you liked it.


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