What are the URL parameters? (element at position #3 in urlparse result)

Question

I\'ve taken a look to urlparse.urlparse method documentation and I\'m a little bit confused about what is the parameters part (not to be confused w

Answer 1

Wow... I was not aware of that, see example:

>>> urlparse.urlparse("http://some.page.pl/nothing.py;someparam=some;otherparam=other?query1=val1&query2=val2#frag")
ParseResult(scheme='http', netloc='some.page.pl', path='/nothing.py', params='someparam=some;otherparam=other', query='query1=val1&query2=val2', fragment='frag')

And help(urlparse.urlparse):

Help on function urlparse in module urlparse:

urlparse(url, scheme='', allow_fragments=True)
    Parse a URL into 6 components:
    :///;?#
    Return a 6-tuple: (scheme, netloc, path, params, query, fragment).
    Note that we don't break the components up in smaller bits
    (e.g. netloc is a single string) and we don't expand % escapes.