How to convert a url string to safe characters with python?

Question

Suppose I have the following string:

\"http://earth.google.com/gallery/kmz/women_for_women.kmz?a=large\"

Is there some function or module t

Answer 1

Python 2's urllib.quote_plus, and Python 3's urllib.parse.quote_plus

url = "http://earth.google.com/gallery/kmz/women_for_women.kmz?a=large"
# Python 2
urllib.quote_plus(url)
# Python 3
urllib.parse.quote_plus(url)

outputs:

'http%3A%2F%2Fearth.google.com%2Fgallery%2Fkmz%2Fwomen_for_women.kmz%3Fa%3Dlarge'