Docs

http://purl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Install

From PyPI (stable):

$ pip install purl

From Github (unstable):

$ pip install git+git://github.com/codeinthehole/purl.git#egg=purl

Use

Construct:

>>> from purl import URL

# String constructor
>>> from_str = URL('https://www.google.com/search?q=testing')

# Keyword constructor
>>> from_kwargs = URL(scheme='https', host='www.google.com', path='/search', query='q=testing')

# Combine
>>> from_combo = URL('https://www.google.com').path('search').query_param('q', 'testing')

URL objects are immutable - all mutator methods return a new instance.

Interrogate:

>>> u = URL('https://www.google.com/search?q=testing')
>>> u.scheme()
'https'
>>> u.host()
'www.google.com'
>>> u.domain()
'www.google.com'
>>> u.username()
>>> u.password()
>>> u.netloc()
'www.google.com'
>>> u.port()
>>> u.path()
'/search'
>>> u.query()
'q=testing'
>>> u.fragment()
''
>>> u.path_segment(0)
'search'
>>> u.path_segments()
('search',)
>>> u.query_param('q')
'testing'
>>> u.query_param('q', as_list=True)
['testing']
>>> u.query_param('lang', default='GB')
'GB'
>>> u.query_params()
{'q': ['testing']}
>>> u.has_query_param('q')
True
>>> u.has_query_params(('q', 'r'))
False
>>> u.subdomains()
['www', 'google', 'com']
>>> u.subdomain(0)
'www'

Note that each accessor method is overloaded to be a mutator method too, similar to the jQuery API. Eg:

>>> u = URL.from_string('https://github.com/codeinthehole')

# Access
>>> u.path_segment(0)
'codeinthehole'

# Mutate (creates a new instance)
>>> new_url = u.path_segment(0, 'tangentlabs')
>>> new_url is u
False
>>> new_url.path_segment(0)
'tangentlabs'

Hence, you can build a URL up in steps:

>>> u = URL().scheme('http').domain('www.example.com').path('/some/path').query_param('q', 'search term')
>>> u.as_string()
'http://www.example.com/some/path?q=search+term'

Along with the above overloaded methods, there is also a add_path_segment method for adding a segment at the end of the current path:

>>> new_url = u.add_path_segment('here')
>>> new_url.as_string()
'http://www.example.com/some/path/here?q=search+term'

Couple of other things:

• Since the URL class is immutable it can be used as a key in a dictionary

• It can be pickled and restored

• It supports equality operations

• It supports equality operations

URL templates can be used either via a Template class:

>>> from purl import Template
>>> tpl = Template("http://example.com{/list*}")
>>> url = tpl.expand({'list': ['red', 'green', 'blue']})
>>> url.as_string()
'http://example.com/red/green/blue'

or the expand function:

>>> from purl import expand
>>> expand(u"{/list*}", {'list': ['red', 'green', 'blue']})
'/red/green/blue'

A wide variety of expansions are possible - refer to the RFC for more details.

Changelog

Contribute

Clone, create a virtualenv then install purl and the packages required for testing:

$ git clone git@github.com:codeinthehole/purl.git
$ cd purl
$ mkvirtualenv purl  # requires virtualenvwrapper
(purl) $ make

Ensure tests pass using:

(purl) $ pytest

or:

$ tox