urlunquote sample

urlunquote.py

import urllib                                                                   
                                                                                
urls = [                                                                        
    'http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B',  
    'http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C1%E5%E4%F3%E8%ED%FB',                       
]                                                                               
                                                                                
def urlunquote(url, guess_charsets=None):                                       
    if guess_charsets is None:                                                  
        guess_charsets = ['utf-8', 'cp1251']                                    
    str_url = urllib.unquote(url)                                               
    for enc in guess_charsets:                                                  
        try:                                                                    
            return str_url.decode(enc)                                          
        except UnicodeDecodeError:                                              
            pass  # next try ...                                                
    # fall back to the same url                                                 
    return url                                                                  
                                                                                
for url in urls:                                                                
    print urlunquote(url)