How to join absolute and relative urls?

Question

I have two urls:

url1 = \"http://127.0.0.1/test1/test2/test3/test5.xml\"
url2 = \"../../test4/test6.xml\"

How can I get an absolute url for

Answer 1

es = ['http://127.0.0.1', 'test1', 'test4', 'test6.xml']
base = ''
map(lambda e: urlparse.urljoin(base, e), es)