Django Design Patterns and Best Practices: Industry-standard web development techniques and solutions using Python, 2nd Edition

by Arun Ravindran

URLs belong to a more general family of identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). Hence, a URL has the same structure as a URI. A URI is composed of several parts: URI = Scheme + Net Location + Path + Query + Fragment For example, a URI (http://dev.example.com:80/gallery/videos?id=217#comments) can be deconstructed in Python using the urlparse function: >>> from urllib.parse import urlparse >>> urlparse("http://dev.example.com:80/gallery/videos?id=217#comments") ParseResult(scheme='http', netloc='dev.example.com:80', path='/gallery/videos', params='', query='id=217', fragment='comments')