Kirk McDonald wrote: > If you have a link such as, e.g.: > > <a href="index.py?title=Main Menu">Main menu!</a> > > The space will be translated to the character code '%20' when you later > retrieve the GET data. Not knowing if there was a library function that > would convert these back to their actual characters, I've written the > following: > > import re > > def sub_func(m): > return chr(int(m.group()[1:], 16)) > > def parse_title(title): > p = re.compile(r'%[0-9][0-9]') > return re.sub(p, sub_func, title) > > (I know I could probably use a lambda function instead of sub_func, but > I come to Python via C++ and am still not entirely used to them. This is > clearer to me, at least.) > > I guess what I'm asking is: Is there a library function (in Python or > mod_python) that knows how to do this? Or, failing that, is there a > different regex I could use to get rid of the substitution function? > > -Kirk McDonald
Actually, I just noticed this doesn't really work at all. The URL character codes are in hex, so not only does the regex not match what it should, but sub_func fails miserably. See why I wanted a library function? -Kirk McDonald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
