Need a little help to turn {query} to url encode character

[dunkaroo]

I am having a little trouble to convert {query} to url encode characters, I found a solution from Stack Exchange

https://askubuntu.com/questions/53770/how-can-i-encode-and-decode-percent-encoded-strings-on-the-command-line

 

It works fine in the terminal

alias urldecode='python -c "import sys, urllib as ul; print ul.unquote_plus(sys.argv[1])"'
alias urlencode='python -c "import sys, urllib as ul; print ul.quote_plus(sys.argv[1])"'
echo "test special character +-*/=" | urlencode

but when I edit and paste to "script" in Alfred workflow it fail to run

alias urldecode='python -c "import sys, urllib as ul; print ul.unquote_plus(sys.argv[1])"'
alias urlencode='python -c "import sys, urllib as ul; print ul.quote_plus(sys.argv[1])"'
echo "{query}" | urlencode

The input node is "hotkey", "current selection from os" Thanks

Edited November 10, 2016 by dunkaroo

[deanishe]

Aliases don't work in non-interactive mode. Just pipe the input straight into the Python command:

 

echo "{query}" | python -c "import sys, urllib as ul; print ul.quote_plus(sys.argv[1])"

 

 

[dunkaroo]

thank you 

[deanishe]

Come to think of it, that won't work. If you're piping in the input, you'd need:

 

echo "{query}" | python -c "import sys, urllib as ul; print ul.quote_plus(sys.stdin.read())"