I am trying to urlencode this string before I submit.
queryString = 'eventName=' + evt.fields["eventName"] + '&' + 'eventDescription=' + evt.fields["eventDescription"];
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'
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(...)