[Tutor] urlencode

[Kent Johnson]

Senthil_OR at Dell.com wrote:
>> From: Lee Jones
>> Subject: [Tutor] urlencode
>> Hello,
>> I am trying to urlencode a string.  In python the only thing I can see
> is the urllib.urlencode().  But this takes a dictionary, and returns
>> "key=value", which is not what I want.  I only want to url-encode a
> string.  Does any one know how to do this in python
> 
> 
> Are you looking for urllib.quote() ?

Or urllib.quote_plus() which also escapes spaces. This is the function 
that is called by urlencode().

Kent