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

this one line working fine in my case -->

urllib.quote(unicode_string.encode('utf-8'))

thanks @IanCleland and @PavelVlasov