Better way to sift parts of URL . . .

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    Ben> I am working on a script that splits a URL into a page and a
    Ben> url.

I couldn't tell quite what you mean to accomplish from your example.  (In
particular, I don't know what you mean by "default_group", as it's never
defined, and I don't know why the desired output of examples 1 and 6 is the
same, since the URLs are clearly different.)  You don't mention having tried
the urlparse module, so I thought I should ask: have you tried using
urlparse?

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