Removing HTTP and WWW from URL python

Question

url1=\'www.google.com\'
url2=\'http://www.google.com\'
url3=\'http://google.com\'
url4=\'www.google\'
url5=\'http://www.google.com/images\'
url6=\'https://www.youtub         


        

Answer 1

you can use regex

url = 'http://www.google.com/images'
url = url.replace("http://www.","")
print url

or you can use regular expressions

import re
url = re.compile(r"https?://(www\.)?")
url.sub('', 'http://www.google.com/images').strip().strip('/')