urldecode function?

[rkmr.em at gmail.com]

hi
is there a function that does the opposite of urllib.urlencode?

for example
urldecode('Cat=1&by=down&start=1827')

returns a dictionary with {'Cat':1, 'by':'down','start':1827)

thanks
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