Correct URL encoding

[Graham Breed]

mattia wrote:
> I'm using urlopen in order to download some web pages. I've always to 
> replace some characters that are in the url, so I've come up with:
> url.replace("|", "%7C").replace("/", "%2F").replace(" ", "+").replace
> (":", "%3A")
> There isn't a better way of doing this?

Yeah, shame there's no function -- called "urlencode" say -- 
that does it all for you.


                       Graham