Python, opposite function urllib.urlencode

Question

How can I convert data after processing urllib.urlencode to dict? urllib.urldecode does not exist.

Answer 1

urllib.unquote_plus() does what you want. It replaces %xx escapes by their single-character equivalent and replaces plus signs with spaces.

Example:

unquote_plus('/%7Ecandidates/?name=john+connolly') 

yields

'/~candidates/?name=john connolly'.