Python: How to Unescape String (DecodeURI in JavaScript)

We can use urllib module to do this. Oh and by the way, this is on Python 2 point something.

import urllib # urllib module # convert the string the_decoded_string = urllib.unquote(the_encoded_string) """ the_decoded_string variable now consists of the unescaped version string data type of the_encoded_string variable """

This is the documentation of urllib.unquote utility

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The opposite of that function is urllib.quote(string) with additional argument to create a custom safe characters list. This is the documentation