Perl To Python Migration

URL PROCESSING

The urllib module actually provides methods for downloading files, as we've already seen in Chapter 12. It also contains a number of functions for processing/converting URLs into useful formats in the same way as the Perl URI::Escape. The functions in each are summarized in Table 13.1.

Table 13.1. Converting URL to/from escaped versions

Perl URI::Escape	Python urllib	Description
uri_escape(string)	urllib.quote (string)	Escapes characters in string with URL compatible formats. Note that the Python quote() does not convert spaces to + characters by default (uri_escape() does). Use the quote_plus() function instead
uri_unescape(string)	urllib.unquote (string)	Converts a string that has URL escape sequences embedded into it in a normal ...