Build a URL using Requests module Python

Question

Is it possible to build a URL using the Requests library for Python?

Building a query string is supported but what about building the rest of the URL. Specifically I'd be interested in adding on to the base URL with URL encoded strings:

http :// some address.com/api/[term]/

term = 'This is a test'

http :// some address.com/api/This+is+a+test/

This is presumably possible using urllib but it seems like it would be better in Requests. Does this feature exist? If not is there a good reason that it shouldn't?

Answer 1

requests is basically a convenient wrapper around urllib (and 2,3 and other related libraries).

You can import urljoin() , quote() from requests.compat , but this is essentially the same as using them directly from urllib and urlparse modules:

>>> from requests.compat import urljoin, quote_plus
>>> url = "http://some-address.com/api/"
>>> term = 'This is a test'
>>> urljoin(url, quote_plus(term))
'http://some-address.com/api/This+is+a+test'