If you want to convert the file names which use standard URL encoding (with %20 for space, etc) use:
from urllib import unquote new_filename = unquote(filename) I have found this does not convert encoded characters of the form '&#CC;' so you may have to do that manually. I think these are just ascii encodings in hexadecimal. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
