Python encoding characters with urllib.quote

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I'm trying to encode non-ASCII characters so I can put them inside an url and use them in urlopen. The problem is that I want an encoding like JavaScript (that for example encodes ó as %C3%B3):

encodeURIComponent(ó)
'%C3%B3'

But urllib.quote in python returns ó as %F3:

urllib.quote(ó)
'%F3'

I want to know how to achieve an encoding like javascript's encodeURIComponent in Python, and also if I can encode non ISO 8859-1 characters like Chinese. Thanks!

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2 Answers

in Python 3 the urllib.quote has been renamed to urllib.parse.quote.

Also in Python 3 all strings are unicode strings (the byte strings are called bytes).

Example:

from urllib.parse import quote

print(quote('ó'))
# output: %C3%B3
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