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Unicode issue with urllib quote and unquote
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urllib_quote_qunicode.py
from urllib import unquote, quote
a = u'\u2022'
print a
b = a.encode('utf-8')
print b
c = quote(b)
print c
d = unicode(c)
print d
e = unquote(d)
# e here is a unicode string with utf-8 characters, so we see garbage
print e
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