I need to extract a very long URL (example below) from an email message that I grab using Gmail's IMAP.
https://example.com/account/resetpassword?code=e8EkT%2B48uMCHr3Sq4QZVr0%2FVHrTBwQvhYwubjeaKozn29I7VGvWSYNO6VNRLXCK230P%2FklDrFC6BpPI7OF%2F5yawHlux80jqTBhTq2QRS4r7sEnSM9qKV1mIXkTzx%2B5tjakgElg%3D%3D&returnUrl=example.com
However, when I try to print the grabbed message, I notice that my long URL has some extra things like =\r\n and 3D inside of it (see examples below) or it is split in several lines by =.
https://example.com/account/resetpa=\r\nssword?code=3De8EkT%2B48uMCHr3Sq4QZVr0%2FVHrTBwQvhYwubjeaKozn29I7VGvWSYNO6V=\r\nNRLXCK230P%2FklDrFC6BpPI7OF%2F5yawHlux80jqTBhTq2QRS4r7sEnSM9qKV1mIXkTzx%2B5=\r\ntjakgElg%3D%3D&returnUrl=3Dexample.com
https://example.com/account/resetpa=
ssword?code=3De8EkT%2B48uMCHr3Sq4QZVr0%2FVHrTBwQvhYwubjeaKozn29I7VGvWSYNO6V=
NRLXCK230P%2FklDrFC6BpPI7OF%2F5yawHlux80jqTBhTq2QRS4r7sEnSM9qKV1mIXkTzx%2B5=
tjakgElg%3D%3D&returnUrl=3Dexample.com
How can I make sure that nothing is added to the long URL so that I could use it later to open?
I believe that format with = and 3D is called quoted printable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable
You could try using quopri.decodestring(string). https://docs.python.org/2/library/quopri.html