Converting relative URLs to absolute

[Cameron Laird]

In article <23891c90.0203150820.6362868 at posting.google.com>,
Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.net> wrote:
>James A Roush <jar at mminternet.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.16f93563d41b508f989696 at news.mminternet.com>...
>> 
>
>[Handling relative and "rooted" links in Web pages]
>
>> This precisely what I'm looking for.  As someone else pointed out in another 
>> post, urllib should have this but, sadly, does not.
>
>The module I mentioned [1] doesn't attempt to handle more
>sophisticated URL types, such as...
>
>  http://user@somesite/somepath
>
>Indeed, a more generic URL parser really needs to be put into the
>standard library whilst retaining the simplicity that one tends to see
>in other "path" manipulation APIs (eg. os.path) - the world doesn't
>need another overcomplicated Java-like API to do the simplest of
>things. I wonder if mxURL might at least provide inspiration.
>
>Paul
>
>[1] http://www.boddie.org.uk/downloads/urlutils.py

>From what I've seen, cURL, or more properly libcurl 
<URL: http://curl.haxx.se/ >, has cornered the market
in being an efficiently coded library which properly
interprets the most recent URL standards.  Is Python
best served by support of pycurl?
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