Table of Contents

• Check if a URL is absolute
• Remove the fragment from a URL

Check if a URL is absolute howto

• urlparse parses a URL as scheme://netloc/path;parameters?query#fragment
• By testing whether or not netloc is empty, we can determine that a URL is absolute.

from urllib.parse import urlparse

def is_absolute(url):
    return bool(urlparse(url).netloc)

print(is_absolute('https://yeonghoey.com/python'))
print(is_absolute('python/_img'))

True
False

Remove the fragment from a URL howto

• Use urllib.parse.urldefrag.

from urllib.parse import urldefrag
tuple_ = urldefrag('https://yeonghoey.com/python/#how-to')
print(tuple_)

DefragResult(url='https://yeonghoey.com/python/', fragment='how-to')