Strings and Unicode
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madsurfer2000 at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 20 12:28:36 EDT 2003
I wrote:
> I have a function that takes a string as an input parameter. This
> function then urlencodes the string and sends it to a server with
> telnetlib.Telnet
>
> The problem is that the string gets converted into what seems to be
> Unicode. How can I check to see if the input-string is Unicode and
> convert it to a different character set (in this case ISO-Latin1).
I see that my question may have been asked in the wrong way, so here's
more details:
I'm using Python 2.2.2. under Windows XP. The function I was talking
about actually takes two strings, and I send both parameters to the
urlencode function. The urlencode-function I use is imported from
urllib.
My function:
def addPOSTParam(self,name,value):
param = urlencode({name: value})
self.POSTParameters.append(param)
Example:
client.addPOSTParam("param","abc æ")
POSTParameters then looks like:
['param=abc+%C3%A6']
Here, the 'æ' character is converted into what seems to be Unicode
I would have expected the following:
['param=abc+%E6']
type(value) gives:
<type 'str'>
I probably should have tested type() before, because it seems to be a
standard string.
Hope this explains my problem better. As you probably have guessed I'm
trying to send information to a web-server, but since this is mostly a
project for learning, I don't want to use the included HTTP classes.
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