Python 2
What you’re looking for is urllib.quote_plus:
safe_string = urllib.quote_plus(‘string_of_characters_like_these:$#@=?%^Q^$’)
#Value: ‘string_of_characters_like_these%3A%24%23%40%3D%3F%25%5EQ%5E%24’
Python 3
In Python 3, the urllib package has been broken into smaller components. You’ll use urllib.parse.quote_plus (note the parse child module)
import urllib.parse
safe_string = urllib.parse.quote_plus(…)
You need to pass your parameters into urlencode() as either a mapping (dict), or a sequence of 2-tuples, like:
>>> import urllib
>>> f = { ‘eventName’ : ‘myEvent’, ‘eventDescription’ : ‘cool event’}
>>> urllib.urlencode(f)
‘eventName=myEvent&eventDescription=cool+event’
Python 3 or above
Use:
>>> urllib.parse.urlencode(f)
eventName=myEvent&eventDescription=cool+event
Note that this does not do url encoding in the commonly used sense (look at the output). For that use urllib.parse.quote_plus.