how to express @ sign in URl

I was doing self.request.path and got the the path which is the email address, for ex开发者_高级运维ample, example@hotmail.com, the it cant display it the way it was, it shows like example01_hotmail.com, all cgi.urlencode(), is there a way that the self.request.path could return the integral url? Thank you

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URLEncode the "@" as %40. URL should look like:

http://example.com/blah?email=example%40hotmail.com