[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there a function that does the opposite of urllib.urlencode?
for example
urldecode('Cat=1&by=down&start=1827')
returns a dictionary with {'Cat':1, 'by':'down','start':1827)
the cgi modules contains assorted stuff for parsing serialized HTTP
forms and query strings. here's a quick way to get a dictionary:
>>> import cgi
>>> dict(cgi.parse_qsl("Cat=1&by=down&start=1827"))
{'start': '1827', 'by': 'down', 'Cat': '1'}
there's also:
>>> cgi.parse_qs("Cat=1&by=down&start=1827")
{'start': ['1827'], 'by': ['down'], 'Cat': ['1']}
>>> cgi.parse_qsl("Cat=1&by=down&start=1827")
[('Cat', '1'), ('by', 'down'), ('start', '1827')]
(both these forms handle multiple instances of the same key)
to autoconvert things that look like integers, you can do e.g.
>>> def safeint(x):
... try:
... return int(x)
... except ValueError:
... return x # leave as is
...
>>> dict((k, safeint(v)) for k, v in
cgi.parse_qsl("Cat=1&by=down&start=1827"))
{'start': 1827, 'by': 'down', 'Cat': 1}
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