18.17 urlparse -- Parse URLs into components

Python 2.5

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18.17 `urlparse` -- Parse URLs into components

This module defines a standard interface to break Uniform Resource Locator (URL) strings up in components (addressing scheme, network location, path etc.), to combine the components back into a URL string, and to convert a ``relative URL'' to an absolute URL given a ``base URL.''

The module has been designed to match the Internet RFC on Relative Uniform Resource Locators (and discovered a bug in an earlier draft!). It supports the following URL schemes: file, ftp, gopher, hdl, http, https, imap, mailto, mms, news, nntp, prospero, rsync, rtsp, rtspu, sftp, shttp, sip, sips, snews, svn, svn+ssh, telnet, wais.

New in version 2.5: Support for the sftp and sips schemes.

The urlparse module defines the following functions:

urlparse( urlstring[, default_scheme[, allow_fragments]])

Parse a URL into six components, returning a 6-tuple. This corresponds to the general structure of a URL: scheme://netloc/path;parameters?query#fragment. Each tuple item is a string, possibly empty. The components are not broken up in smaller parts (for example, the network location is a single string), and % escapes are not expanded. The delimiters as shown above are not part of the result, except for a leading slash in the path component, which is retained if present. For example:

>>> from urlparse import urlparse
>>> o = urlparse('http://www.cwi.nl:80/%7Eguido/Python.html')
>>> o
('http', 'www.cwi.nl:80', '/%7Eguido/Python.html', '', '', '')
>>> o.scheme
'http'
>>> o.port
80
>>> o.geturl()
'http://www.cwi.nl:80/%7Eguido/Python.html'

If the default_scheme argument is specified, it gives the default addressing scheme, to be used only if the URL does not specify one. The default value for this argument is the empty string.

If the allow_fragments argument is false, fragment identifiers are not allowed, even if the URL's addressing scheme normally does support them. The default value for this argument is True.

The return value is actually an instance of a subclass of tuple. This class has the following additional read-only convenience attributes:

Attribute	Index	Value	Value if not present
`scheme`	0	URL scheme specifier	empty string
`netloc`	1	Network location part	empty string
`path`	2	Hierarchical path	empty string
`params`	3	Parameters for last path element	empty string
`query`	4	Query component	empty string
`fragment`	5	Fragment identifier	empty string
`username`		User name	`None`
`password`		Password	`None`
`hostname`		Host name (lower case)	`None`
`port`		Port number as integer, if present	`None`

See section 18.17.1, ``Results of urlparse() and urlsplit(),'' for more information on the result object.

Changed in version 2.5: Added attributes to return value.

urlunparse( parts): Construct a URL from a tuple as returned by urlparse(). The parts argument be any six-item iterable. This may result in a slightly different, but equivalent URL, if the URL that was parsed originally had unnecessary delimiters (for example, a ? with an empty query; the RFC states that these are equivalent).

urlsplit( urlstring[, default_scheme[, allow_fragments]])

This is similar to urlparse(), but does not split the params from the URL. This should generally be used instead of urlparse() if the more recent URL syntax allowing parameters to be applied to each segment of the path portion of the URL (see RFC 2396) is wanted. A separate function is needed to separate the path segments and parameters. This function returns a 5-tuple: (addressing scheme, network location, path, query, fragment identifier).

The return value is actually an instance of a subclass of tuple. This class has the following additional read-only convenience attributes:

Attribute	Index	Value	Value if not present
`scheme`	0	URL scheme specifier	empty string
`netloc`	1	Network location part	empty string
`path`	2	Hierarchical path	empty string
`query`	3	Query component	empty string
`fragment`	4	Fragment identifier	empty string
`username`		User name	`None`
`password`		Password	`None`
`hostname`		Host name (lower case)	`None`
`port`		Port number as integer, if present	`None`

See section 18.17.1, ``Results of urlparse() and urlsplit(),'' for more information on the result object.

New in version 2.2. Changed in version 2.5: Added attributes to return value.

urlunsplit( parts): Combine the elements of a tuple as returned by urlsplit() into a complete URL as a string. The parts argument be any five-item iterable. This may result in a slightly different, but equivalent URL, if the URL that was parsed originally had unnecessary delimiters (for example, a ? with an empty query; the RFC states that these are equivalent). New in version 2.2.

urljoin( base, url[, allow_fragments])

Construct a full (``absolute'') URL by combining a ``base URL'' (base) with a ``relative URL'' (url). Informally, this uses components of the base URL, in particular the addressing scheme, the network location and (part of) the path, to provide missing components in the relative URL. For example:

>>> from urlparse import urljoin
>>> urljoin('http://www.cwi.nl/%7Eguido/Python.html', 'FAQ.html')
'http://www.cwi.nl/%7Eguido/FAQ.html'

The allow_fragments argument has the same meaning and default as for urlparse().

urldefrag( url): If url contains a fragment identifier, returns a modified version of url with no fragment identifier, and the fragment identifier as a separate string. If there is no fragment identifier in url, returns url unmodified and an empty string.