Correct URL encoding

[Chris Rebert]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:21 PM, mattia <gervaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using urlopen in order to download some web pages. I've always to
> replace some characters that are in the url, so I've come up with:
> url.replace("|", "%7C").replace("/", "%2F").replace(" ", "+").replace
> (":", "%3A")
> There isn't a better way of doing this?

I believe you're looking for the aptly-named urlencode() function:
http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html#urllib.urlencode

Cheers,
Chris

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