get site name from a URL in python

Question

I am new to Python and it seems to have a lot of nice functions that I don\'t know about. What function can I use to get the root site name? For example, how would I get

Answer 1

The much overlooked urlparse module:

from urlparse import urlparse
scheme, netloc, path, params, query, fragment = urlparse("http://www.faqs.org/docs/diveintopython/kgp_commandline.html")
print netloc