Can't open Unicode URL with Python

Question

Using Python 2.5.2 and Linux Debian, I\'m trying to get the content from a Spanish URL that contains a Spanish char \'í\':

import urllib
url = u         


        

Answer 1

Encoding the URL as utf-8, should have worked. I wonder if your source file is properly encoded, and whether the interpreter knows it. If your python source file is saved as UTF-8, for example, then you should have

# coding=UTF-8

as the first or second line.

import urllib
url = u'http://mydomain.es/índice.html'
content = urllib.urlopen(url.encode('utf-8')).read()

works for me.

Edit: also, be aware that Unicode text in an interactive Python session (whether through IDLE, or a console) is fraught with encoding-related difficulty. In those cases, you should use Unicode literals (like \u00ED in your case).