Best way to convert a Unicode URL to ASCII (UTF-8 percent-escaped) in Python?

Question

I\'m wondering what\'s the best way -- or if there\'s a simple way with the standard library -- to convert a URL with Unicode chars in the domain name and path to the equiva

Answer 1

there's some RFC-3896 url parsing work underway (e.g. as part of the Summer Of Code) but nothing in the standard library yet AFAIK -- and nothing much on the uri encoding side of things either, again AFAIK. So you might as well go with MizardX's elegant approach.