using unicode in Google translate url from python script

Question

I'm trying to use my script to automatically using google translate apis from russian to english. Here is the code.

mytext = {some text in russian}
url = 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q='+ mytext +'&langpair=ru%7Cen'
request = urllib2.Request(url, None, {'Referer': 'http://www.mysite.org'})

Now I've tried using various encodings for mytext, including unicode, utf-8, windows-1251 but it never works. Either the urllib.request complains of non-ascii characters or google returns an error code. Any idea if I need any codec?

moinudin · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-26 00:35:19Z

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Use

url = 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=' \
    + urllib2.quote(mytext) + '&langpair=ru%7Cen'

to quote your text

edited Jan 26, 2011 at 0:35

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answered Jan 26, 2011 at 0:31

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