finding domain name

[Joe Riopel]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Bobby Roberts <tchendrix at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi group.  I'm new to python and need some help and hope you can
> answer this question.  I have a situation in my code where i need to
> create a file on the server and write to it.  That's not a problem if
> i hard code the path.  However, the domain name needs to be dynamic so
> it is picked up automatically.  The path to our websites is
>
> home/sites/xxxxx/
>
> where xxxxx represents the domain name.
>
> How can I find the domain name of the current url being viewed.

I would guess that a pretty simple regular expression might do it.