urllib.quote() throws KeyError

Question

To encode the URI, I used urllib.quote(\"schönefeld\") but when some non-ascii characters exists in string, it thorws

KeyError: u\'\\xe9\'
Code:         


        

Answer 1

By just converting the string to unicode I resolved the issue.

here is the snippet:

try:
    unicode(mystring, "ascii")
except UnicodeError:
    mystring = unicode(mystring, "utf-8")
else:
    pass

Detailed description of solution can be found at http://effbot.org/pyfaq/what-does-unicodeerror-ascii-decoding-encoding-error-ordinal-not-in-range-128-mean.htm