How to prevent python requests from percent encoding my URLs?

Question

I'm trying to GET an URL of the following format using requests.get() in python:

http://api.example.com/export/?format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel

#!/usr/local/bin/python

import requests

print(requests.__versiom__)
url = 'http://api.example.com/export/'
payload = {'format': 'json', 'key': 'site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel'}
r = requests.get(url, params=payload)
print(r.url)

However, the URL gets percent encoded and I don't get the expected response.

2.2.1
http://api.example.com/export/?key=site%3Adummy%2Btype%3Aexample%2Bgroup%3Awheel&format=json

This works if I pass the URL directly:

url = http://api.example.com/export/?format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel
r = requests.get(url)

Is there some way to pass the the parameters in their original form - without percent encoding?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It is not good solution but you can use string:

r = requests.get(url, params='format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel')

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BTW:

payload = {'format': 'json', 'key': 'site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel'}

payload_str = "&".join("%s=%s" % (k,v) for k,v in payload.items())
# 'format=json&key=site:dummy+type:example+group:wheel'

r = requests.get(url, params=payload_str)