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pythonurlsplitdelimiter

How to split on a delimiter in python preserving the delimiter

so what i wanna do here is basically i have a file with a list of url endpoints, and i wanna split the links in the file on the slash delimter, basically generating sub-endpoints of endpoints, example:

https://www.somesite.com/path1/path2/path3

and i would want to get this:

https://www.somesite.com/path1/
https://www.somesite.com/path1/path2/
https://www.somesite.com/path1/path2/path3

i know how to achieve this in bash, but not with python, i tried using split function but it's very limited in my hands. i hope i can get some help here, thank you

Solution

  • One option is to split by a /, then slice the result and join back:

    >>> url = 'https://www.somesite.com/path1/path2/path3'
>>> parts = url.split('/')
>>> ['/'.join(parts[:p+1]) for p in range(3, len(parts))]
['https://www.somesite.com/path1', 'https://www.somesite.com/path1/path2', 'https://www.somesite.com/path1/path2/path3']