Urlquote

Fast percent encoding / decoding for python.

This library is not intended to be a replacement for urllib. urllib is part of the python standard library and should be your goto choice to quote and unquote URLs. However, should quoting / unquoting URLs be known to be a performance bottleneck and you are fine with the encoding described below, then by all means have fun using this library.

Usage

from urlquote import quote

quoted = quote('/El Niño/')
assert(quoted == '/El%20Ni%C3%B1o/'.encode('utf-8'))

Compatibility

Since this library uses a cffi interface it should work fine with any python version. For linux the wheel has to be build against a libc with a version older or equal to the version of libc on the platform the wheel will be executed on.

Installation

pip install urlquote

quote operates utf-8 encoded bytes. If passed a string, it will enocde it into utf-8 first. It will always return utf-8 encoded bytes. unquote behaves the same way.

Encoding

All ASCII characters less than hexidecimal 20 and greater than 7E are encoded. This includes special charcters such as line feed, carriage return, NULL, etc. . Aside from these, space, double quote (") , hash (#), inequality qualifiers (<), (>), backtick (`), question mark (?), and curly brackets ({), (}) are also encoded.

Development

This library is a thin wrapper around the percent-encoding rust crate. It exposes part of its functionality to python via a C-Interface using milksnake.

Support

This tool is provided as is under an MIT license without any warranty or SLA. You are free to use it as part for any purpose, but the responsibility for operating it resides with you. We appreciate your feedback though. Contributions on GitHub are welcome.