urllib.urlencode doesn't like unicode values: how about this workaround?

Question

If I have an object like:

d = {\'a\':1, \'en\': \'hello\'}

...then I can pass it to urllib.urlencode, no problem:

Answer 1

I had the same problem with German "Umlaute". The solution is pretty simple:

In Python 3+, urlencode allows to specify the encoding:

from urllib import urlencode
args = {}
args = {'a':1, 'en': 'hello', 'pt': u'olá'}
urlencode(args, 'utf-8')

>>> 'a=1&en=hello&pt=ol%3F'