Claude Henchoz wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I have a huge list of URLs. These URLs all have ASCII codes for special
> characters, like "%20" for a space or "%21" for an exclamation mark.
>
> I've already googled quite some time, but I have not been able to find
> any elegant way on how to replace these with their 'real' counterparts
> (" " and "!").
>
> Of course, I could just replace(), but that seems to be a lot of work.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Cheers, Claude
>
The standard library module 'urllib' gies you two choices, depending on
the exact behavior you'd like:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.2/lib/module-urllib.html
unquote(string)
Replace "%xx" escapes by their single-character equivalent.
Example: unquote('/%7Econnolly/') yields '/~connolly/'.
unquote_plus(string)
Like unquote(), but also replaces plus signs by spaces, as required
for unquoting HTML form values.
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