Question

I’ve got a string from an HTTP header, but it’s been escaped.. what function can I use to unescape it?

myemail%40gmail.com -> [e-mail] 

Would urllib.unquote() be the way to go?

Answer 1

I am pretty sure that urllib’s unquote is the common way of doing this.

>>> import urllib >>> urllib.unquote('myemail%40gmail.com') '[e-mail]' 

There’s also unquote_plus:

Like unquote(), but also replaces plus signs by spaces, as required for unquoting HTML form values.