How to escape a pipe ( | ) symbol for url_encode in python

Question

I am facing a problem with urllib.url_encode in python. Bets explained with some code:

>>> from urllib import urlencode
>>> params = {\'p\' :          


        

Answer 1

It is simpler in Python 3:

urllib.parse.urlencode(params, safe='|')

Answer 2

Convert a mapping object or a sequence of two-element tuples to a “percent-encoded” string[...]

The urlencode() method is acting as expected. If you want to prevent the encoding then you can first encode the entire object and then replace the encoded characters with pipes.

>>> u = urlencode(params)
>>> u.replace('%7C', '|')
'p=1+2+3+4+5%266&l=ab|cd|ef'