How to urlencode a querystring in Python?

James picture James · Apr 9, 2011 · Viewed 709.3k times · Source

I am trying to urlencode this string before I submit.

queryString = 'eventName=' + evt.fields["eventName"] + '&' + 'eventDescription=' + evt.fields["eventDescription"]; 

Answer

Ricky picture Ricky · Feb 19, 2012

Python 2

What you're looking for is urllib.quote_plus:

>>> urllib.quote_plus('string_of_characters_like_these:$#@=?%^Q^$')
'string_of_characters_like_these%3A%24%23%40%3D%3F%25%5EQ%5E%24'

Python 3

In Python 3, the urllib package has been broken into smaller components. You'll use urllib.parse.quote_plus (note the parse child module)

import urllib.parse
urllib.parse.quote_plus(...)