Python: Importing urllib.quote

Question

I would like to use urllib.quote(). But python (python3) is not finding the module.
Suppose, I have this line of code:

print(urllib.quote("châteu", safe=''))

How do I import urllib.quote?

import urllib or
import urllib.quote both give

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'quote'

What confuses me is that urllib.request is accessible via import urllib.request

Asked By: imrek

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Answer 1

In Python 3.x, you need to import urllib.parse.quote:

>>> import urllib.parse
>>> urllib.parse.quote("châteu", safe='')
'ch%C3%A2teu'

NOTE

The urllib module has been split into parts and renamed in Python 3 to
urllib.request, urllib.parse, and urllib.error.

Answered By: falsetru

Answer 2

urllib went through some changes in Python3 and can now be imported from the parse submodule

>>> from urllib.parse import quote  
>>> quote('"')                      
'%22'

Answered By: Justin Fay

Answer 3

If you need to handle both Python 2.x and 3.x you can catch the exception and load the alternative.

try:
    from urllib import quote  # Python 2.X
except ImportError:
    from urllib.parse import quote  # Python 3+

You could also use the python compatibility wrapper six to handle this.

from six.moves.urllib.parse import quote

Answered By: eandersson

Answer 4

This is how I handle this, without using exceptions.

import sys
if sys.version_info.major > 2:  # Python 3 or later
    from urllib.parse import quote
else:  # Python 2
    from urllib import quote

Answered By: Yutenji

Answer 5

from six.moves.urllib.parse import quote

six will simplify compatibility problems between Python 2 and Python 3, such as different import paths.

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