[Tutor] ascii encoding

[Max Noel]

On Jan 24, 2005, at 23:29, Luis N wrote:

> How would I best turn this string:
>
> '2005-01-24 00:00:00.0'
>
> into this string:
>
> '2005%2D01%2D24%2000%3A00%3A00%2E0'
>
> In order to call a URL.
>
> I've hunted through the standard library, but nothing seemed to jump 
> out.

	The pathname2url in urllib seems to do what you want:

 >>> import urllib
 >>> urllib.pathname2url('2005-01-24 00:00:00.0')
'2005-01-24%2000%3A00%3A00.0'

	And urllib.url2pathname does the opposite conversion.

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