Parsing hostname and port from string or url

Question

I can be given a string in any of these formats:

• url: e.g http://www.acme.com:456

• string: e.g www.acme.com:456, www.acme.com 456, or www.acme.co

Answer 1

You can use urlparse to get hostname from URL string:

from urlparse import urlparse
print urlparse("http://www.website.com/abc/xyz.html").hostname # prints www.website.com