Resolving a relative url path to its absolute path

Question

Is there a library in python that works like this?

>>> resolvePath("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "anotherpage.html") 'http://www.asite.com/folder/anotherpage.html' >>> resolvePath("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "folder2/anotherpage.html") 'http://www.asite.com/folder/folder2/anotherpage.html' >>> resolvePath("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "/folder3/anotherpage.html") 'http://www.asite.com/folder3/anotherpage.html' >>> resolvePath("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "../finalpage.html") 'http://www.asite.com/finalpage.html' 

Answer 1

Yes, there is urlparse.urljoin, or urllib.parse.urljoin for Python 3.

>>> try: from urlparse import urljoin # Python2 ... except ImportError: from urllib.parse import urljoin # Python3 ... >>> urljoin("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "anotherpage.html") 'http://www.asite.com/folder/anotherpage.html' >>> urljoin("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "folder2/anotherpage.html") 'http://www.asite.com/folder/folder2/anotherpage.html' >>> urljoin("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "/folder3/anotherpage.html") 'http://www.asite.com/folder3/anotherpage.html' >>> urljoin("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "../finalpage.html") 'http://www.asite.com/finalpage.html' 

for copy-and-paste:

try:     from urlparse import urljoin  # Python2 except ImportError:     from urllib.parse import urljoin  # Python3