Open a specific page on a website

Question

Using the webbrowser module, I want to open a specific page on last.fm. It picks a line from a text file then prints it. I want it to add that line at the end of:

webbrowser.open('http://www.last.fm/music/')

So for example, the random.choice picks example artist. I want example artist to be added at the end of the url correctly. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Use the urlparse.urljoin function to build up the full destination URL:

import urlparse
import webbrowser

artist_name = 'virt' 
url = urlparse.urljoin('http://www.last.fm/music/', artist_name)

# Will open http://www.last.fm/music/virt in your browser.
webbrowser.open(url)