["python","escaping"]
Decode escaped characters in URL

I have a list containing URLs with escaped characters in them. Those characters have been set by urllib2.urlopen when it recovers the html page: http://www.sample1webpage.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&action=edit http://www.sample1webpage.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&action=history http://www.sample1webpage.com/index.php?title=%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5&variant=zh Is there a way to transform them back to their unescaped form in python? P.S.: The URLs are encoded in utf-8
Using urllib package (import urllib) : Python 2.7 From official documentation : urllib.unquote(string) Replace %xx escapes by their single-character equivalent. Example: unquote('/%7Econnolly/') yields '/~connolly/'. Python 3 From official documentation : urllib.parse.unquote(string, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace') […] Example: unquote('/El%20Ni%C3%B1o/') yields '/El Niño/'.