#>>> print urllib.quote.__doc__
#quote('abc def') -> 'abc%20def'
# Each part of a URL, e.g. the path info, the query, etc., has a
# different set of reserved characters that must be quoted.
# RFC 2396 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax lists
# the following reserved characters.
# reserved = ";" | "/" | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" |
# "$" | ","
# Each of these characters is reserved in some component of a URL,
# but not necessarily in all of them.
# By default, the quote function is intended for quoting the path
# section of a URL. Thus, it will not encode '/'. This character
# is reserved, but in typical usage the quote function is being
# called on a path where the existing slash characters are used as
# reserved characters.
data = 'name = ~a+3'
data1 = urllib.quote(data)
print data1 #result: name%20%3D%20%7Ea%2B3
print urllib.unquote(data1) #result: name = ~a+3
data2 = urllib.quote_plus(data)
print data2 #result: name+%3D+%7Ea%2B3
print urllib.unquote_plus(data2) #result: name = ~a+3
data3 = urllib.urlencode({ 'name': 'dark-bull', 'age': 200 })
print data3 #result: age=200&name=dark-bull
data4 = urllib.pathname2url(r'd:/a/b/c/23.php')
print data4 #result: ///D|/a/b/c/23.php
print urllib.url2pathname(data4) #result: D:/a/b/c/23.ph