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I'm trying to request the following URL:

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/shiraz/barossa-valley-estate-grenache-shiraz-mourv%C3%A8dre-75cl

Decoding it with urllib and printing it reveals it to be:

In [36]: print urllib.unquote(url)
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/shiraz/barossa-valley-estate-grenache-shiraz-mourvèdre-75cl

i.e. an accented "e".

But it seems no matter what I request with import requests; requests.get(...) then I get a 404.

What is the proper input to give to the get method?

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you should decode the url with 'latin-1' after passing it to urrlib unquote

>>> 
>>> k = "https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/shiraz/barossa-valley-estate-grenache-shiraz-mourv%C3%A8dre-75cl"
>>> r = requests.get(urllib.unquote(k).decode("latin-1"))
>>> r.status_code
200
>>>
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The decode is unnecessary and incorrect. It happens to work in this case because è is in Latin-1, but it will fail for any codepoints above U+00FF, like あ. Just do requests.get(urllib.unquote(k)).
please read the op question , he did exactly what you proposed and ended up with 404 not found. decode is necessary and correct to open the link with requests.get .
Hmmm, you're right in this case...the OP's website seems to expect URLs to be Latin-1 encoded, but that's not the case for other sites.
Also noticed that requests.get(urllib.unquote(u'.......')) works or requests.get(urllib.unquote(u.decode('utf8'))) or requests.get(urllib.unquote(u.decode('latin-1'))), but requests.get(urllib.unquote(u).decode('utf8')) does not.

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