How can I get the base of a URL in Python?

Question

I\'m trying to determine the base of a URL, or everything besides the page and parameters. I tried using split, but is there a better way than splitting it up into pieces? Is th

Answer 1

Get the right-most occurence of slash; use the string slice through that position in the original string. The +1 gets you that final slash at the end.

link = "http://127.0.0.1/asdf/login.php"
link[:link.rfind('/')+1]