URL 'special character' replacements

[Fredrik Lundh]

Claude Henchoz wrote:

> I have a huge list of URLs. These URLs all have ASCII codes for special
> characters, like "%20" for a space or "%21" for an exclamation mark.
>
> I've already googled quite some time, but I have not been able to find
> any elegant way on how to replace these with their 'real' counterparts
> (" " and "!").
>
> Of course, I could just replace(), but that seems to be a lot of work.

>>> import urllib
>>> urllib.unquote("http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html%20%21")
'http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html !'

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