Beautiful Soup and URL base names in python

Question

How would you use Beautiful soup to get a URL base name in python? Given the url name as a string, what would you do?

Answer 1

I'd use urlparse over BeautifulSoup for extracting pieces of a URL. Here's an example:

from urlparse import urlparse

parsedurl = urlparse('http://example.com/filename.txt')
print parsedurl.path

The output will be:

/filename.txt