urllib.parse

Parse (absolute and relative) URLs.

urllib.parse module is based upon the following RFC specifications.

RFC 3986 (STD66): "Uniform Resource Identifiers" by T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding
and L.  Masinter, January 2005.

RFC 2732 : "Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's by R.Hinden, B.Carpenter
and L.Masinter, December 1999.

RFC 2396:  "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)": Generic Syntax by T.
Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, and L. Masinter, August 1998.

RFC 2368: "The mailto URL scheme", by P.Hoffman , L Masinter, J. Zawinski, July 1998.

RFC 1808: "Relative Uniform Resource Locators", by R. Fielding, UC Irvine, June
1995.

RFC 1738: "Uniform Resource Locators (URL)" by T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M.
McCahill, December 1994

RFC 3986 is considered the current standard and any future changes to
urllib.parse module should conform with it.  The urllib.parse module is
currently not entirely compliant with this RFC due to defacto
scenarios for parsing, and for backward compatibility purposes, some
parsing quirks from older RFCs are retained. The testcases in
test_urlparse.py provides a good indicator of parsing behavior.

The WHATWG URL Parser spec should also be considered.  We are not compliant with
it either due to existing user code API behavior expectations (Hyrum's Law).
It serves as a useful guide when making changes.

Symbols in urllib.parse

d

DefragResult: Concrete class for urldefrag() results containing str data.
DefragResultBytes: Concrete class for urldefrag() results containing bytes data.

p

parse_qs: Parse a query given as a string argument.
parse_qsl: Parse a query given as a string argument.
ParseResult: Concrete class for urlparse() results containing str data.
ParseResultBytes: Concrete class for urlparse() results containing bytes data.

q

quote: Each part of a URL, e.g.
quote_from_bytes: Like quote(), but accepts a bytes object rather than a str, and does not perform string-to-bytes encoding.
quote_plus: Like quote(), but also replace ' ' with '+', as required for quoting HTML form values.

s

SplitResult: Concrete class for urlsplit() results containing str data.
SplitResultBytes: Concrete class for urlsplit() results containing bytes data.

u

unquote: Replace %xx escapes by their single-character equivalent.
unquote_plus: Like unquote(), but also replace plus signs by spaces, as required for unquoting HTML form values.
unquote_to_bytes: unquote_to_bytes('abc%20def') -> b'abc def'.
unwrap: Transform a string like '<URL:scheme://host/path>' into 'scheme://host/path'.
urldefrag: Removes any existing fragment from URL.
urlencode: Encode a dict or sequence of two-element tuples into a URL query string.
urljoin: Join a base URL and a possibly relative URL to form an absolute interpretation of the latter.
urllib.parse.SplitResult.geturl: Return the re-combined version of the original URL as a string.
urlparse: Parse a URL into 6 components: <scheme>://<netloc>/<path>;<params>?<query>#<fragment>
urlsplit: Parse a URL into 5 components: <scheme>://<netloc>/<path>?<query>#<fragment>
urlunparse: Put a parsed URL back together again.
urlunsplit: Combine the elements of a tuple as returned by urlsplit() into a complete URL as a string.

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