urllib.urlencode wrongly encoding ± character

[Fredrik Lundh]

sleytr at gmail.com wrote:

> I think there should be way to encode ± to %B1 on any platform/locale
> combination. While searching for a real solution, I'm going to add a
> search&destroy filter for %C2 on urlencoded dictionary as a workaround.
> Because my queries are constant and %C2 is the only problem for now.

I'm obviously missing some context here, but "encoding ± to %B1 on any
platform" is exactly what urlencode does:

    >>> import urllib
    >>> urllib.urlencode([("key", chr(0xb1))])
    'key=%B1'

(however, if you pass in unicode values with non-ascii characters, url-
encode will give you an error).

are you sure the conversion to UTF-8 isn't happening *before* you pass
your data to urlencode ?  what does

    print "1", repr(data)
    print "2", repr(urllib.urlencode(data))

print for the kind of data you're encoding ?

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