URL Character Decoding

[Kirk McDonald]

Paul McGuire wrote:
> "Kirk McDonald" <mooquack at suad.org> wrote in message
> news:43dd86ad at nntp0.pdx.net...
> 
>>If you have a link such as, e.g.:
>>
>><a href="index.py?title=Main Menu">Main menu!</a>
>>
>>The space will be translated to the character code '%20' when you later
>>retrieve the GET data.
>>
>>I guess what I'm asking is: Is there a library function (in Python or
>>mod_python) that knows how to do this? Or, failing that, is there a
>>different regex I could use to get rid of the substitution function?
>>
>>-Kirk McDonald
> 
> 
> 
>>>>import urllib
>>>>urllib.quote("index.py?title=Main Menu")
> 
> 'index.py%3Ftitle%3DMain%20Menu'
> 
>>>>urllib.unquote("index.py%3Ftitle%3DMain%20Menu")
> 
> 'index.py?title=Main Menu'
> 
> 

Perfect! Thanks.

-Kirk McDonald