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Python: encode special character

I'm trying to encode a string containing '-' (minus) symbol to iso8859-15, it will return the string as it is. for eg: 

str="abc-def"

Expected output is 

abc%2Ddef

Is there any way to do this? sorry me if my question is wrong.

Solution

  • Your output sample suggest you are looking for url encoding, not Latin-1.

    The urllib.quote() and urllib.quote_plus() functions can be used to do such quoting, but the - character does not need quoting and won't be quoted:

    Replace special characters in string using the %xx escape. Letters, digits, and the characters '_.-' are never quoted.

    Demo:

    >>> from urllib import quote
>>> quote('abc-def')
'abc-def'
>>> quote('some data that needs quoting!')
'some%20data%20that%20needs%20quoting%21'

    If you are using Python 3, the quote and quote_plus functions are found in the urllib.parse module.