In playing with this I found link.replace does work but when I use link.replace('&','&')
it replaces it with & instead of just &. link.replace is working for me since if I changed the second option from & to something else I see the change. So it seems link.replace() function reads whether the first option is utf-8 and converts the second option automatically to utf-8? How do I prevent that? Thanks again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list