[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Was just wondering if anyone here could help me. I want to encode (and > subsequently decode) email addresses to use in URLs. I believe that > this can be done using MD5. > > I can find documentation for encoding the strings, but not decoding > them. What should I do to encode =and= decode strings with MD5? > > Many Thanks in Advance, > Oliver Beattie
Depends what you mean by "encode email addresses to use in URLs". MD5 is a cryptographic one-way hash function; it creates a 'finger print' of the input data: given this, it's impossible to reproduce the original input. Is this what you're looking for? >>> import urllib >>> urllib.quote('[EMAIL PROTECTED]') 'some.persons%40somedomain.com' hth Jon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list