yarl

The module provides handy URL class for URL parsing and changing.

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Introduction

Url is constructed from str:

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from yarl import URL url = URL('https://www.python.org/~guido?arg=1#frag') url URL('https://www.python.org/~guido?arg=1#frag')

All url parts: scheme, user, password, host, port, path, query and fragment are accessible by properties:

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url.scheme 'https' url.host 'www.python.org' url.path '/~guido' url.query_string 'arg=1' url.query <MultiDictProxy('arg': '1')> url.fragment 'frag'

All url manipulations produce a new url object:

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url = URL('https://www.python.org') url / 'foo' / 'bar' URL('https://www.python.org/foo/bar') url / 'foo' % {'bar': 'baz'} URL('https://www.python.org/foo?bar=baz')

Strings passed to constructor and modification methods are automatically encoded giving canonical representation as result:

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url = URL('https://www.python.org/шлях') url URL('https://www.python.org/%D1%88%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%85')

Regular properties are percent-decoded, use raw_ versions for getting encoded strings:

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url.path '/шлях'

url.raw_path '/%D1%88%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%85'

Human readable representation of URL is available as .human_repr():

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url.human_repr() 'https://www.python.org/шлях'

For full documentation please read https://yarl.aio-libs.org.

Installation

::

$ pip install yarl

The library is Python 3 only!

PyPI contains binary wheels for Linux, Windows and MacOS. If you want to install yarl on another operating system (like Alpine Linux, which is not manylinux-compliant because of the missing glibc and therefore, cannot be used with our wheels) the the tarball will be used to compile the library from the source code. It requires a C compiler and and Python headers installed.

To skip the compilation you must explicitly opt-in by using a PEP 517 configuration setting pure-python, or setting the YARL_NO_EXTENSIONS environment variable to a non-empty value, e.g.:

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$ pip install yarl --config-settings=pure-python=false

Please note that the pure-Python (uncompiled) version is much slower. However, PyPy always uses a pure-Python implementation, and, as such, it is unaffected by this variable.

Dependencies

YARL requires multidict_ library.

API documentation

The documentation is located at https://yarl.aio-libs.org.

Why isn't boolean supported by the URL query API?

There is no standard for boolean representation of boolean values.

Some systems prefer true/false, others like yes/no, on/off, Y/N, 1/0, etc.

yarl cannot make an unambiguous decision on how to serialize bool values because it is specific to how the end-user's application is built and would be different for different apps. The library doesn't accept booleans in the API; a user should convert bools into strings using own preferred translation protocol.

Comparison with other URL libraries

• furl (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/furl)

  The library has rich functionality but the furl object is mutable.

  I'm afraid to pass this object into foreign code: who knows if the code will modify my url in a terrible way while I just want to send URL with handy helpers for accessing URL properties.

  furl has other non-obvious tricky things but the main objection is mutability.

• URLObject (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/URLObject)

  URLObject is immutable, that's pretty good.

  Every URL change generates a new URL object.

  But the library doesn't do any decode/encode transformations leaving the end user to cope with these gory details.

Source code

The project is hosted on GitHub_

Please file an issue on the bug tracker <https://github.com/aio-libs/yarl/issues>_ if you have found a bug or have some suggestion in order to improve the library.

Discussion list

aio-libs google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/aio-libs

Feel free to post your questions and ideas here.

Authors and License

The yarl package is written by Andrew Svetlov.

It's Apache 2 licensed and freely available.

.. _GitHub: https://github.com/aio-libs/yarl

.. _multidict: https://github.com/aio-libs/multidict