urllib.unquote + unicode

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:14:18 -0300, koara <koara at atlas.cz> escribió:

> i am using urllib.unquote_plus to unquote a string. Sometimes i get a
> strange string like for example "spolu%u017E%E1ci.cz" to unquote. Here
> the problem is that some application decided to quote a non-ascii
> character as %uxxxx directly, instead of using an encoding and quoting
> byte per byte.
>
> Python (2.4.1) simply returns "'spolu%u017E\xe1ci.cz", which is likely
> not what the application meant.
>
> My question is, is this %u quoting a standard (i.e., urllib is in the
> wrong),

Not that I know of (and that doesn't prove anything).

> is it not (i.e., the application is in the wrong and urllib
> silently ignores the '%u0' - why?), and most importantly, is there a
> simple workaround to get it working as expected?

Try this (untested):

def unquote_plus_u(source):
   result = unquote_plus(source)
   if '%u' in result:
     result = result.replace('%u','\\u').decode('unicode_escape')
   return result

-- 
Gabriel Genellina