How to urlencode a querystring in Python?

Question

I am trying to urlencode this string before I submit.

queryString = 'eventName=' + evt.fields["eventName"] + '&' + 'eventDescription=' + evt.fields["eventDescription"]; 

Answer 1

Try requests instead of urllib and you don't need to bother with urlencode!

import requests
requests.get('http://youraddress.com', params=evt.fields)

EDIT:

If you need ordered name-value pairs or multiple values for a name then set params like so:

params=[('name1','value11'), ('name1','value12'), ('name2','value21'), ...]

instead of using a dictionary.

Answer 2

In Python 3, this worked with me

import urllib

urllib.parse.quote(query)

Answer 3

You need to pass your parameters into urlencode() as either a mapping (dict), or a sequence of 2-tuples, like:

>>> import urllib
>>> f = { 'eventName' : 'myEvent', 'eventDescription' : 'cool event'}
>>> urllib.urlencode(f)
'eventName=myEvent&eventDescription=cool+event'

Python 3 or above

Use:

>>> urllib.parse.urlencode(f)
eventName=myEvent&eventDescription=cool+event

Note that this does not do url encoding in the commonly used sense (look at the output). For that use urllib.parse.quote_plus.

Answer 4

Python 3:

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

Answer 5

for future references (ex: for python3)

>>> import urllib.request as req
>>> query = 'eventName=theEvent&eventDescription=testDesc'
>>> req.pathname2url(query)
>>> 'eventName%3DtheEvent%26eventDescription%3DtestDesc'

Answer 6

Note that the urllib.urlencode does not always do the trick. The problem is that some services care about the order of arguments, which gets lost when you create the dictionary. For such cases, urllib.quote_plus is better, as Ricky suggested.