Python interface to PayPal - urllib.urlencode non-ASCII characters failing

Question

I am trying to implement PayPal IPN functionality. The basic protocol is as such:

1. The client is redirected from my site to PayPal\'s site to complete payment. He l

Answer 1

Instead of encoding to utf-8, one should encode to what ever the paypal is using for the post. It is available under key 'charset' in the form paypal sends.

So the following code worked for me:

data = dict([(k, v.encode(data['charset'])) for k, v in data.items()])