Best way to get query string from a URL in python?

Question

I need to get the query string from this URL https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?next=1&value=3 and I don\'t want to use request.META. I have figured out that there

Answer 1

I prefer using

request.META['QUERY_STRING']

From docs:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpRequest.META

This does not include the ? prefix.