[Tutor] url parsing

[Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Jay Jesus Amorin <jay.amorin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can you please help my how to parse.
>
> url = http://this/is/my/url/to/parse
>
> how do i parse url to print "http://this/is/my/url/to"
>
> i want to remove the last part of my url with is "parse". I would like to
> remove the last string of my url.
>
> i have try split, but i think it wont work as i dont know how long my url
> would be in my real application.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Newbie,
>
> Jay
>
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> I'm not sure this is the best strategy, but it seems to work:

>>> url ="http://this/is/my/url/to/parse"
>>> m = url.replace("//", '/').split("/")
>>> n = m[0]+"//"+"/".join(new[1:])
>>> n
'http://this/is/my/url/to'
>>>




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