On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:16:46 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:43:45 -0300, Steven D'Aprano > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > >> I'm using urllib.urlretrieve() to download HTML pages, and I've hit a >> snag with URLs containing ampersands: >> >> http://www.example.com/parrot.php?x=1&y=2 >> >> Somewhere in the process, urls like the above are escaped to: >> >> http://www.example.com/parrot.php?x=1&y=2 >> >> which naturally fails to exist. >> >> I could just do a string replace, but is there a "right" way to escape >> and unescape URLs? I've looked through the standard lib, but I can't >> find anything helpful. > > This works fine for me: > > py> import urllib > py> fn = > urllib.urlretrieve("http://c7.amazingcounters.com/counter.php?i=1516903 > &c=4551022")[0] > py> open(fn,"rb").read() > '\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n\x00\x00\x00\rIHDR\x00\x00... > > So it's not urlretrieve escaping the url, but something else in your > code...
I didn't say it urlretrieve was escaping the URL. I actually think the URLs are pre-escaped when I scrape them from a HTML file. I have searched for, but been unable to find, standard library functions that escapes or unescapes URLs. Are there any such functions? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
