D4rko wrote: > Hi! > > I have a problem with urllib2 open() function. My application is > receiving the following request - as I can see in the developement > server console it is properly encoded: > > [27/Mar/2009 22:22:29] "GET /[blahblah]/Europa_%C5%9Arodkowa/5 HTTP/ > 1.1" 500 54572 > > Then it uses this request parameter as name variable to build > wikipedia link, and tries to acces it with following code: > > url = u'http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=' + name + > '&printable=yes' > opener = urllib2.build_opener() > opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')] > wikipage = opener.open(url) > > Unfortunately, the last line fails with the exception: > UnicodeEncodeError 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u015a' in > position 30: ordinal not in range(128). Using urlencode(url) results > in TypeError "not a valid non-string sequence or mapping object", and > quote(url) fails because of KeyError u'\u015a' . How can I properly > parse this request to make it work (ie. acces > http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_%C5%9Arodkowa)?
What if you just used a regular byte string for the URL? >>> url = 'http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=' + name + '&printable=yes' (Unless "name" is a unicode object as well.) (Nice user-agent, BTW. :-P ) -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
