[Tutor] urlparse question

[Lance E Sloan]

--On Monday, August 26, 2002 3:20 PM -0400 Blake Winton <bwinton@latte.ca> 
wrote:
> * Danny Yoo <dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> [020826 14:05]:
>###
>>>> query_string =
> "hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=south+africa+travel+cape+town"
>>>> import cgi
>>>> dict = cgi.parse_qs(query_string)
>>>> dict
> {'hl': ['en'], 'ie': ['UTF-8'], 'oe': ['utf-8'],
>  'q': ['south africa travel cape town']}
>###
>
> You might want to notice that it's completely lost the "lr=" part
> of the query string.  If that's important to you, you may need to
> reinvent the wheel.

Hmm...  That's a pity.  I think it would be more useful if it set 
dict['lr'] = None or [].

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