os.path equivalent for web urls in python?

Question

For joining, splitting and processing file and directory paths python's os.path modul is great. Is there an equivalent for web urls?

Answer 1

urlparse - Parse URLs into components, is the module for you..

To actually fetch urls & data, you need urllib2 .

Answer 2

Hope this help:

http://docs.python.org/library/urlparse.html

http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html