Taking Spaces out of a string and Replacing them with "+"

Question

Im writing this program that searches YouTube for a part of a bigger program

when the user inputs the search phrase it might have spaces but i don't want those spaces i want "+" instead so that the URL works

Here is my Code:

import urllib2
x=raw_input("Search: ")
site1 = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s'%x)
y = site1.read()
print y

when i input anything that's more than one word it doesn't work because there shouldn't be any spaces in a URL so how can i turn the spaces between words into plus signs

Thank You!

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '13 at 20:51

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Fortunately, urllib has urllib.quote_plus for that purpose. It will also help to escape everything else that needs escaping:

>>> urllib.quote_plus('hello how\'re you?')
'hello+how%27re+you%3F'

answered May 11 '13 at 20:51

Dan Lecocq

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This is much better indeed! – Tim Pietzcker May 11 '13 at 21:00

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 11 '13 at 20:50

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I don't quite see the problem:

>>> "This is a string".replace(" ", "+")
'This+is+a+string'

answered May 11 '13 at 20:50

Tim Pietzcker

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thats All i needed i feel dumb Thank You!! – Serial May 11 '13 at 20:51

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 11 '13 at 20:51

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That should work.

x.replace(" ", "+")

answered May 11 '13 at 20:51

James

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Taking Spaces out of a string and Replacing them with "+"

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