Unescape the chinese characters in url?

Question

Sometimes, Chinese characters are escaped into forms like:

%B9%F3%D6%DD%C3%A9%CC%A8

How do I convert these back to readable chinese characters in Python?

Answer 1

You can use urllib2.unquote like this:

>>> import urllib2
>>> print urllib2.unquote('%B9%F3%D6%DD%C3%A9%CC%A8').decode('gbk')
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Answer 2

Try this,

urllib.unquote(your_string).decode(your_encoding)