Category index for “unicode”

Unicode string formatting

Did you know, if one of values in string formatting expression with % operator is unicode, then result string will also be unicode?

>>> "Hello, %s" % u"Alex"
u'Hello, Alex'
>>> "Hello, %s" % u"Алексей"
u'Hello, \u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0435\u0439'

Parse url which contains unicode query, using urlparse.parse_qs

Task: get dictionary of URL GET query. For example, we have following url:

http://example.com/?key=value&a=b

it is needed to get a dict:

{'key': ['value'], 'a': ['b']}

Values are lists, because one key may have several values:

In: http://example.com/?key=value&a=b&a=c
Out: {'key': ['value'], 'a': ['b', 'c']}