Tuesday, May 24, 2011

A Human-Usable URL Parser for Python

Yes, there is the urlparse module in Python 2.7 and the urllib.parse function in Python 3, but each of them just creates a 6-tuple of URL parts, and it's up to you to know that the query part, for example, is at position 4.

So here's a neat little wrapper around that functionality which gives named fields to each part:

So, to get the query part, you just do parsed_url.query instead of parsed_url[4].

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