Python does not concatenate string and unicode for reference

Question

When I add a Unicode line to the end of the line, I cannot click on the URL.

Poorly:

base_url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xml&titles='

url = base_url + u"Ángel_Garasa"
print url

Good:

base_url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xml&titles='

url = base_url + u"Toby_Maquire"
print url

Answer 1

It looks like you're printing the results in an IDE, perhaps PyCharm. You need the percentage to encode the encoded version of the string in UTF-8 format:

import urllib

base_url = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&format=xml&titles='
name = u"Ángel_Garasa"

print base_url + urllib.quote(name.encode("utf-8"))

It shows:

In your case, you need to update your code so that the corresponding field from the database is encoded in percent. You only need to encode this field in UTF-8 for percent encoding only.