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URL escaping in AppleScript & Python
-- A function for escaping URLs and skeleton code for a test.
on URLescape(myURL)
set myURL to quoted form of myURL
set myURL to text from character 2 to -2 of myURL
set cmd to "
from urllib import quote
print quote(\"" & myURL & "\", \"/:\")
"
--return cmd
return (do shell script "python -c '" & cmd & "'")
end URLescape
set test to "Here's a string with quotes & ampersands"
URLescape(test)
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