Python: Get URL path sections

Question

How do I get specific path sections from a url? For example, I want a function which operates on this:

http://www.mydomain.com/hithere?image=2934
         


        

Answer 1

A combination of urlparse and os.path.split will do the trick. The following script stores all sections of a url in a list, backwards.

import os.path, urlparse

def generate_sections_of_url(url):
    path = urlparse.urlparse(url).path
    sections = []; temp = "";
    while path != '/':
        temp = os.path.split(path)
        path = temp[0]
        sections.append(temp[1])
    return sections

This would return: ["else", "something", "hithere"]