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

Could use regex, depending on how strict your data is. Are http and www always going to be there? Have you thought about https or w3 sites?

import re
new_url = re.sub('.*w\.', '', url, 1)

1 to not harm websites ending with a w.

edit after clarification

I'd do two steps:

if url.startswith('http'):
    url = re.sub(r'https?:\\', '', url)
if url.startswith('www.'):
    url = re.sub(r'www.', '', url)