Simple ascii url encoding with python

Question

look at that:

import urllib
print urllib.urlencode(dict(bla=\'Ã\'))

the output is

bla=%C3%BC

what I want

Answer 1

Have a look at unicode transliteration in python:

from unidecode import unidecode
print unidecode(u"\u5317\u4EB0")

# That prints: Bei Jing

In your case:

bla='Ã'
print unidecode(bla)
'A'

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This is a third party library, which can be easily installed via:

$ git clone http://code.zemanta.com/tsolc/git/unidecode
$ cd unidecode
$ python setup.py install