What u are doing is correct only. The resultant url is same what u are expecting.
>>> payload = {'name': 'hello', 'data': 'hello'}
>>> r = requests.get("http://example.com/api/params", params=payload)
u can see the resultant url:
>>> print(r.url)
http://example.com/api/params?name=hello&data=hello
According to url format:
In particular, encoding the query string uses the following rules:
- Letters (A–Z and a–z), numbers (0–9) and the characters
.
,-
,~
and_
are left as-is - SPACE is encoded as
+
or%20
- All other characters are encoded as %HH hex representation with any non-ASCII characters first encoded as UTF-8 (or other specified encoding)
So array[]
will not be as expected and will be automatically replaced according to the rules:
If you build a url like :
`Build URL: http://example.com/api/add.json?name='hello'&data[]='hello'&data[]='world'`
OutPut will be:
>>> payload = {'name': 'hello', "data[]": 'hello','data[]':'world'}
>>> r = requests.get("http://example.com/api/params", params=payload)
>>> r.url
u'http://example.com/api/params?data%5B%5D=world&name=hello'
This is because Duplication will be replaced by the last value of the key in url and data[]
will be replaced by data%5B%5D
.
If data%5B%5D
is not the problem(If server is able to parse it correctly),then u can go ahead with it.