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Handling URL Encoding in Python Requests

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 3, 2024

When making HTTP requests in Python using the Requests module, special characters in URLs can cause errors. The solution is to manually URL encode the parameters using quote_plus or the params argument.

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