system.net.httpClient().get(url) is giving invalid url error for Google Translation API for Translating language from Tamil to English

[Divya_K]

Am getting Invalid URL at index 145 error in the below code. Basically, this code is accessing the Google Translate API to do the translation
Here is my code:
url = "https://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?otf=1&hl=en-US&dt=at&dt=bd&dt=ex&dt=ld&dt=md&dt=qca&dt=rw&dt=rm&dt=ss&dt=t&tsel=0&ssel=0&q=அனைத்தும்+திறந்திருக்கும்&oe=UTF-16&tk=xxxx&tl=en-US&client=gtx&sl=auto&ie=UTF-16"

response = system.net.httpClient().get(url)
response = client.get(url)
result = response.getText()
print response

[pturmel]

You have international characters in a python conventional string constant. You need to mark the string constant as unicode, like so:

u"some string with unicode"

[pturmel]

Also, you are creating an httpClient instance in every request. This will leak memory and produce many stale threads. Create one instance as a top-level variable in a project library script and use it for all of your requests.