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

If your input is actually UTF-8 and you want iso-8859-1 as output (which is not ASCII) what you need is:

'ñ'.decode('utf-8').encode('iso-8859-1')