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urllib.parse.quote()

percent-encoding

Replaces special and non-ASCII characters in a string with %XX (percent-encoding) — for putting text into a URL path.

Syntax

urllib.parse.quote(string, safe='/', encoding=None, errors=None)

The default is safe='/', so the slash is not encoded: for a file name or a parameter value where '/' is part of the data, use quote(s, safe=''). A space becomes %20, not '+' — quote_plus() is the one for HTML forms. Text is encoded to UTF-8 first, so one Cyrillic letter yields two %XX pairs.

Examples

from urllib.parse import quote
print(quote('a b/c&d'))  # → a%20b/c%26d — косая черта осталась
print(quote('a/b', safe=''))  # → a%2Fb
print(quote('ё'))  # → %D1%91

See also

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