[Pywikipedia-l] Encoding in HTML source

[Andre Engels]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Bináris <wikiposta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I download a page in HTML, which contains titles of articles, these
> titles are something like urlencode()-ed, but not quite; characters like
> "(", ")", "!", ",", ":" appear without encoding.
>
> For example:
> <li><a
> href="/w/index.php?title=Avant_l%27aurore_(court-m%C3%A9trage)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1"
> class="new" title="Avant l'aurore (court-métrage) (page does not
> exist)">Avant l'aurore (court-métrage)</a></li>
>
> Is there a function in pywiki to handle this, or is there available a full
> list of non-encoded characters? I used urlencode() + a dict of known
> exceptions, but this is not the best solution.

>>> page = wikipedia.Page(wikipedia.getSite(), "Avant_l%27aurore_(court-m%C3%A9trage)")
>>> page.urlname()
'Avant_l%27aurore_%28court-m%C3%A9trage%29'



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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com