Encoding / for a URL

Question

I'm trying to encode a / for a URL using urllib.quote. Following the documentation I'm passing an empty string for the second parameter to ensure / is not excluded from being encoded:

print(quote('prøve med / i den', ''))

However, I'm getting the following error:

File "/path/to/my/file.py", line 388, in my_function

print(quote('prøve med / i den', ''))

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 1298, in quote

return ''.join(map(quoter, s))

KeyError: u'\xf8'

Answer 1

Try using a unicode string:

u'prøve med / i den'

Instead of:

'prøve med / i den'

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KeyError: u'\xf8'

It is the hex code for ø.