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

The reason it fails for:

www.acme.com 456

is because it is not a valid URI. Why don't you just:

1. Replace the space with a :
2. Parse the resulting string by using the standard urlparse method

Try and make use of default functionality as much as possible, especially when it comes to things like parsing well know formats like URI's.