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.fie         


        

Answer 1

For use in scripts/programs which need to support both python 2 and 3, the six module provides quote and urlencode functions:

>>> from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode, quote
>>> data = {'some': 'query', 'for': 'encoding'}
>>> urlencode(data)
'some=query&for=encoding'
>>> url = '/some/url/with spaces and %;!<>&'
>>> quote(url)
'/some/url/with%20spaces%20and%20%25%3B%21%3C%3E%26'