Decoding Url Encoded Byte Stream Data In Python

I'm receiving STX ETX packet data, here's a sample: The data has been URL encoded. Before it is encoded and sent it is like this: The relationship between the URL encoded data an

Solution 1:

You can use the urlparse module to decode that string.

importurlparsedata="/type=stxetx&packet=A%d93HX%01%00&serial=1234&foo=bar"

new_data = dict(urlparse.parse_qsl(data))

assertlen(new_data['packet']) == 7assert new_data['packet'][0] == 'A'assertord(new_data['packet'][1]) == 0xd9

Reference:

• http://blog.revathskumar.com/2011/10/python-url-encoding-and-decoding.html
• https://docs.python.org/2/library/urlparse.html