Modify URL components in Python 2

Question

Is there a cleaner way to modify some parts of a URL in Python 2?

For example

http://foo/bar -> http://foo/yah

At present, I\'m doin

Answer 1

I guess the proper way to do it is this way.

As using _replace private methods or variables is not suggested.

from urlparse import urlparse, urlunparse

res = urlparse('http://www.goog.com:80/this/is/path/;param=paramval?q=val&foo=bar#hash')
l_res = list(res)
# this willhave ['http', 'www.goog.com:80', '/this/is/path/', 'param=paramval', 'q=val&foo=bar', 'hash']
l_res[2] = '/new/path'
urlunparse(l_res)
# outputs 'http://www.goog.com:80/new/path;param=paramval?q=val&foo=bar#hash'