"Mike" <no at spam> wrote in message news:1128522921.72009 at nntp.acecape.com... > However when I pull it into python the URL ends up looking like this > (notice the & instead of just & in the URL) > > Any ideas? Some code would be helpful: the "&" is in the page source to start with (which is as it ought to be). What are you using to parse the HTML?