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kiwidude · 08-22-2011, 05:27 PM

Thanks but that doesn't work either I'm afraid. All very frustrating for something that should be so freaking simple!

I have a template url which could be something like:

Code:

http://www.google.de/#sclient=psy&q=%22{author}%22+%22{title}%22

And I have data which I want to be substituted into those {xxx} tags. My original implementation just substituted in the "quoted" values (after any unicode encoding), so straight away I had the final string ready to just pass to a web-browser.

I think it is the open_url function requiring a QUrl which is making this all go pear shaped, unlike webbrowser.open() call which took the string directly.

To keep as a string and delay quoting, that would imply my starting point is something like this:

Code:

http://www.google.de/#sclient=psy&q="{author}"+"{title}"

However applying the quote function to the entire string results in a string that has all sorts of characters encoded - like the : after http etc etc. So that isn't going to work.

08-22-2011, 05:27 PM	#99
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,732 Karma: 2197770 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	Thanks but that doesn't work either I'm afraid. All very frustrating for something that should be so freaking simple! I have a template url which could be something like: Code: http://www.google.de/#sclient=psy&q=%22{author}%22+%22{title}%22 And I have data which I want to be substituted into those {xxx} tags. My original implementation just substituted in the "quoted" values (after any unicode encoding), so straight away I had the final string ready to just pass to a web-browser. I think it is the open_url function requiring a QUrl which is making this all go pear shaped, unlike webbrowser.open() call which took the string directly. To keep as a string and delay quoting, that would imply my starting point is something like this: Code: http://www.google.de/#sclient=psy&q="{author}"+"{title}" However applying the quote function to the entire string results in a string that has all sorts of characters encoded - like the : after http etc etc. So that isn't going to work.