How to convert a dictionary to query string in Python?

Python 3

urllib.parse.urlencode(query, doseq=False, [...])

Convert a mapping object or a sequence of two-element tuples, which may contain str or bytes objects, to a percent-encoded ASCII text string.

— Python 3 urllib.parse docs

A dict is a mapping.

Legacy Python

urllib.urlencode(query[, doseq])
Convert a mapping object or a sequence of two-element tuples to a “percent-encoded” string... a series of key=value pairs separated by '&' characters...

— Python 2.7 urllib docs

In python3, slightly different:

from urllib.parse import urlencodeurlencode({'pram1': 'foo', 'param2': 'bar'})

output: 'pram1=foo&param2=bar'

for python2 and python3 compatibility, try this:

try:    #python2    from urllib import urlencodeexcept ImportError:    #python3    from urllib.parse import urlencode

You're looking for something exactly like urllib.urlencode()!

However, when you call parse_qs() (distinct from parse_qsl()), the dictionary keys are the unique query variable names and the values are lists of values for each name.

In order to pass this information into urllib.urlencode(), you must "flatten" these lists. Here is how you can do it with a list comprehenshion of tuples:

query_pairs = [(k,v) for k,vlist in d.iteritems() for v in vlist]urllib.urlencode(query_pairs)