How to convert `%xx` code in URL back to the corresponding UTF-8 character

Question

For example, I want to convert

'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Croze'

to

u'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaïs_Croze'

How to do this in Python?

Also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8136788/decode-escaped-characters-in-url — TerryA, Jun 28 '13 at 07:02

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 28 '13 at 07:02

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>>> import urllib2
>>> print urllib2.unquote('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Croze')
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaïs_Croze
>>>

edited Jun 28 '13 at 07:02

warvariuc

answered Jun 28 '13 at 07:00

spicavigo

Is this locale dependent ? I get `http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnaÃ¯s_Croze` – Emmanuel Jun 28 '13 at 07:25
@Emmanuel : Your file (or shell) must be unicode encoded. For files use as first line something like `# encoding: utf-8` and make sure that your editor saves it as unicode. – mawimawi Jun 28 '13 at 08:10

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