URL encoding of directories

[hilljb]

Many times, you need characters such as '=' in your HDFS path names. For instance, a partitioned Hive table can have '../year=2015/month=6/day=17' as the path name of a directory. Impala, for instance, uses this naming convention by default for partitioned tables.

Using hdfs.InsecureClient(url, user).list(hdfs_path) on such a path results in

HdfsError: File ../year%3D2015/month%3D6/day%3D30 does not exist.

[mtth]

Thanks for pointing this out. Let me know if you know of any special characters other than = that we shouldn't be encoding. I'll push a fix to stop encoding them (reserved characters usually need to, see #11).

[mtth]

= won't be encoded after 6581150 (version >=1.0.1). Feel free to reopen if you need other characters.

[hilljb]

Awesome! Thanks!

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other characters that would be affected by this.

[sbakiu]

I am having the same issue for directory names containing german special characters: ä,ö,ü,ß,Ä,Ö,Ü. Maybe you could include these characters also.