Problem: neither urllib2.quote nor urllib.quote encode the unicode strings arguments

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.1981.1223069889.3487.python-list at python.org>, Valery
Khamenya wrote:

> things like urllib.quote(u"пиво Müller ") fail with error message:
> <type 'exceptions.KeyError'>: u'\u043f'

Did you try encoding it as UTF-8 first?