Each of these characters is reserved in some component of a URL,
but not necessarily in all of them.
By default, the quote function is intended for quoting the path
section of a URL. Thus, it will not encode '/'. This character
is reserved, but in typical usage the quote function is being
called on a path where the existing slash characters are used as
reserved characters.
string and safe may be either str or bytes objects. encoding and errors
must not be specified if string is a bytes object.
The optional encoding and errors parameters specify how to deal with
non-ASCII characters, as accepted by the str.encode method.
By default, encoding='utf-8' (characters are encoded with UTF-8), and
errors='strict' (unsupported characters raise a UnicodeEncodeError).
quote('abc def') -> 'abc%20def'
Each part of a URL, e.g. the path info, the query, etc., has a different set of reserved characters that must be quoted.
RFC 2396 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax lists the following reserved characters.
reserved = ";" | "/" | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" | "$" | ","
Each of these characters is reserved in some component of a URL, but not necessarily in all of them.
By default, the quote function is intended for quoting the path section of a URL. Thus, it will not encode '/'. This character is reserved, but in typical usage the quote function is being called on a path where the existing slash characters are used as reserved characters.
string and safe may be either str or bytes objects. encoding and errors must not be specified if string is a bytes object.
The optional encoding and errors parameters specify how to deal with non-ASCII characters, as accepted by the str.encode method. By default, encoding='utf-8' (characters are encoded with UTF-8), and errors='strict' (unsupported characters raise a UnicodeEncodeError).