URL-encode a string

Question

I am able to do the following to build a url:

base_url = 'http://google.com/'
qs = urllib.urlencode({'q': string})
url = base_url + '?' + qs

Is there a way to url-encode a string? For example, I would like to be able to do:

url = 'http://google.com/?q=' + urlencode('this is my search'))

Jon Clements · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-06 01:26:56Z

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Use urllib.quote or urllib.quote_plus, eg:

>>> urllib.quote('this is my string')
'this%20is%20my%20string'

>>> urllib.quote_plus('this is my string')
'this+is+my+string'

answered Mar 6, 2015 at 1:26

Jon Clements

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