将字符串解码为 UTF-8（URL/百分比编码字符串）

Question

In my Python 3 program I've come across weirdly encoded strings such as "abol%C3%A2t" (abolât) and "%C5%93ufs" (œufs). I get them from WiktionaryParser.

I've only found ways to encode it to UTF-8 for quoted-printable strings, which is not the case here. How can I change a string from "%C3%A9vitables" to "évitables"?

Answer 1

These strings are Percent-encoded . Use the urllib.parse module to decode them:

import urllib.parse

s = "%C5%93ufs"
s = urllib.parse.unquote(s)