if reply != 200:
sys.stdout.write(httpobj.getfile().read())
-Note that in general for URL-encoded POST operations, query strings must be
+Note that in general for a percent-encoded POST operations, query strings must be
quoted by using :func:`urllib.quote`. For example to send name="Guy Steele,
Jr."::
.. method:: emit(record)
- Sends the record to the Web server as an URL-encoded dictionary.
+ Sends the record to the Web server as a percent-encoded dictionary.
.. _formatter:
.. function:: urlencode(query[, doseq])
Convert a mapping object or a sequence of two-element tuples to a
- "url-encoded" string, suitable to pass to :func:`urlopen` above as the
+ "percent-encoded" string, suitable to pass to :func:`urlopen` above as the
optional *data* argument. This is useful to pass a dictionary of form
fields to a ``POST`` request. The resulting string is a series of
``key=value`` pairs separated by ``'&'`` characters, where both *key* and
.. function:: url2pathname(path)
- Convert the path component *path* from an encoded URL to the local syntax for a
+ Convert the path component *path* from an percent-encoded URL to the local syntax for a
path. This does not accept a complete URL. This function uses :func:`unquote`
to decode *path*.
values are lists of values for each name.
The optional argument *keep_blank_values* is a flag indicating whether blank
- values in URL encoded queries should be treated as blank strings. A true value
+ values in percent-encoded queries should be treated as blank strings. A true value
indicates that blanks should be retained as blank strings. The default false
value indicates that blank values are to be ignored and treated as if they were
not included.
name, value pairs.
The optional argument *keep_blank_values* is a flag indicating whether blank
- values in URL encoded queries should be treated as blank strings. A true value
+ values in percent-encoded queries should be treated as blank strings. A true value
indicates that blanks should be retained as blank strings. The default false
value indicates that blank values are to be ignored and treated as if they were
not included.