Bookmark URL Parsing

David Goodger goodger at python.org
Wed Feb 25 12:08:59 EST 2004


Timothy Wu wrote:
> How exactly does %22 maps to the quotation mark? I know I often see the
> kind of representation in a URL, but what exactly is it and where would
> I find info on that? And most importantly, how do I make my match work?

URLs are not so simple.  See RFC-2396:
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html>.

Also, the urlparse module from Python's stadard library may be useful.

-- David Goodger





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