What's the pythonic way of using a source url to create a new url with different path and scheme?

Question

Say I have a url that or may not be HTTPS, and who's host name I don't control, but follows a format like: http://example.com/special/content [OR] https://example.com/special/content

Using Python what would be the pythonic way of changing scheme to https and path to /something/else

My current approach is:

from urlparse import urlsplit, urljoin, urlunsplit
currenturl = "http://example.com/some/content"
parts = list(urlsplit(urljoin(currenturl, "/something/else")))
parts[0]="https"
newurl = urlunsplit(parts)

Any suggestions ?

Suggestion (from @ignacio-vazquez-abrams)

from urlparse import urlparse, urljoin, urlunparse
currenturl = "http://example.com/some/content"
parts = list(urlparse(currenturl))
parts[0]="https"
parts[2]="/something/else"  # If only path needed changing (or see bellow...)
newurl = urlunparse(parts)
newurl = urljoin(newurl, "/something/else") # If we need to rewrite everything
                                            # after network loc

Please note that the urlparse module has been renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3: docs.python.org/2/library/urlparse.html — Sergio Morstabilini
– Sergio Morstabilini, Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 10:54

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-17 16:32:30Z

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You are so close. Use urlparse.urlparse() to split it up, take the parts you care about, and then use urlparse.urlunparse() to put it back together.

answered Mar 17, 2011 at 16:32

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

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Mark Longair Over a year ago

What would be the difference in this case?

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Over a year ago

@Mark: One would be brute force, and the other would be Pythonic.

Mark Longair Over a year ago

I meant why particularly did you suggest using urlparse/urlunparse rather than urlsplit/urlunsplit - the only difference from the documentation seems to be the handling of parameters, which doesn't seem to be an issue here.

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