On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:10 PM, jakecjacobson<jakecjacob...@gmail.com> wrote: > This seems like a real simple newbie question but how can a person > unencode a string? In Perl I use something like: "$part=~ s/\%([A-Fa- > f0-9]{2})/pack('C', hex($1))/seg;" > > If I have a string like Word1%20Word2%20Word3 I want to get Word1 > Word2 Word3. Would also like to handle special characters like '",(){} > [] etc/
Use the `uu` module together with the `stringio` module: http://docs.python.org/library/uu.html http://docs.python.org/library/stringio.html Not sure about special character handling though. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list