String encoding with urllib.urlencode

Question

For the body of a post request I'm trying to turn:

    data = [
        ('p1', 'true'),
        ('table', 'f3'),
        ('ids', '/'R000000020/'')
    ]

into

p1=true&table=f3&ids='R000000020'

using

import urllib
payload = urllib.urlencode(data)

but I'm getting

'p1=true&table=f3&ids=%27R000000020%27'

How can I get this working correctly?

edit: I ended up using:

    data = [
        ('p1', 'true'),
        ('table', 'f3'),
        ('ids', "'"+'R000000020'+"'")
    ]

t.m.adam · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-16 20:23:45Z

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Urlencode will encode ' to %27 . If you don't want this you can join the data manually :

payload = '&'.join(['='.join(d) for d in data])

Or you can replace %27 with ' :

payload = urllib.urlencode(data).replace("%27", "'")

edited May 16, 2017 at 20:23

answered May 16, 2017 at 20:04

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user1592380 Over a year ago

I did use that as a temporary fix

Joseph D. · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-16 18:10:48Z

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I know this sounds dumb, but have you changed your data ids to:

('ids', 'R000000020')

answered May 16, 2017 at 18:10

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Joseph D. Over a year ago

@user61629, sorry I missed the quotations. you can just append the parameters which you don't want encoded. Not sure why you're doing this. payload = urllib.urlencode([('p1', 'true'),('table', 'f3')]) + "ids='R000000020'"

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