Structured Query Strings?

[JohnVinyard]

TxBillSearch/txbillsearch/txbillsearch.py

Line 137 in 7f4a70d

def _query_without_id(uri):

I read your comments in _query_without_id(), and think you might be able to get away with passing keep_blank_values=True to urllib.parse.parse_qs().

I think this would make it possible to then start using your structured dictionary in the params parameter when you call session.post() instead of baking that in to the url itself.

[EdVinyard]

I need to improve the comment; there's a second difficulty I didn't document.

1. The query string includes value-less items. E.g. color=&shape=. This can be solved just as you say.

2. The query string includes semi-colons, but does not treat them (per the spec) as interchangeable with ampersand as query parameter delimiters. Rather, they are considered delimiters within the values. E.g. color=&flags=a;b;;;. I don't know how to solve this using parse_qs().

Here's an example:

    >>> parse_qs('color=&flags=a;b;;;', keep_blank_values=True)
    {'color': [''], 'flags': ['a'], 'b': ['']}