Urlencode cyrillic characters in Python

Question

I need to convert a cyrillic string to its urlencoded version in Windows-1251 encoding. For the following example string:

Моцарт

The correct result should be:

%CC%EE%F6%E0%F0%F2

In PHP, I would simply do the following:

$request = urlencode(iconv("UTF-8", "windows-1251", "Моцарт"));
echo $request;

How to accomplish the same goal in Python?

What have you tried so far? [`urllib.urlencode`](https://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html#urllib.urlencode)? — jonrsharpe, Jun 15 '14 at 23:29
[Duplicate](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/875771/how-does-one-encode-and-decode-a-string-with-python-for-use-in-a-url)? — hd1, Jun 15 '14 at 23:34

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 15 '14 at 23:28

7

Use the decode and encode method on string, then use urllib.quote

import urllib
print urllib.quote(s.decode('utf8').encode('cp1251'))

prints

%CC%EE%F6%E0%F0%F2

answered Jun 15 '14 at 23:28

Fabricator

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 15 '14 at 23:34

4

In Python 3, use the quote() function found in urllib.request:

from urllib import request

request.quote("Моцарт".encode('cp1251'))

# '%CC%EE%F6%E0%F0%F2'

answered Jun 15 '14 at 23:34

CodeManX

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