From f4b2ebc40a9c1e8b91ce84c25378091e51bb5828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Helmick <mikehelmick@me.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:13:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] This func no longer needs to urlencode the query, _request
 does it

---
 twython/twython.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/twython/twython.py b/twython/twython.py
index 4d5822c..3405c2f 100644
--- a/twython/twython.py
+++ b/twython/twython.py
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ class Twython(object):
                 for result in search:
                     print result
         """
-        kwargs['q'] = urllib.quote_plus(Twython.unicode2utf8(search_query))
+        kwargs['q'] = search_query
         content = self.get('https://search.twitter.com/search.json', params=kwargs)
 
         if not content['results']: