Unquote printed Allen API URL query in abagen.mouse

[rmarkello]

The issue

The following code snippet highlights the undesirable behavior:

>>> from abagen import mouse
>>> info = mouse.get_structure_info(id=22, attributes='name', verbose=True)
'Querying https://api.brain-map.org/api/v2/data/Structure/query.json?criteria=%5Bid%24eq22%5D%2Contology%5Bid%24eq1%5D&only=name%2Cid&'
>>> info
                                    name
id                                      
22  Posterior parietal association areas

That URL printed by the call to mouse.get_structure_info() is "quoted" for the purposes of making the actual API query, but should be "unquoted" for printing purposes since it's almost entirely unreadable by the average person! The whole point of printing the query URL is to make sure that it's formatted correctly, but I can't tell if it's formatted correctly if I can barely read the thing.

Proposed solution

In abagen.mouse.utils, change L63 from:

        print("Querying {}...".format(url))

to

        print("Querying {}...".format(urllib.parse.unquote_plus(url)))

should do the trick! We only unquote for the purposes of printing the URL, but leave the actual URL quoted for the query.

[4lovi4]

Also assigned to issue. Here is the result:

Querying https://api.brain-map.org/api/v2/data/Structure/query.json?criteria=[id$eq22],ontology[id$eq1]&only=name,acronym,id&...