Slicing URL with Python

Question

I am working with a huge list of URL\'s. Just a quick question I have trying to slice a part of the URL out, see below:

http://www.domainname.com/page?CONTEN         


        

Answer 1

Another option would be to use the split function, with & as a parameter. That way, you'd extract both the base url and both parameters.

   url.split("&") 

returns a list with

  ['http://www.domainname.com/page?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=1234', 'param2', 'param3']