How to split a web address [duplicate]

Answer 1

Dan is right: urlparse is your friend:

>>> from urlparse import urlparse
>>>
>>> parts = urlparse("http://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask")
>>> parts.scheme + "://" + parts.netloc
'http://www.stackoverflow.com'
>>> parts.path
'/questions/ask'

Note: In Python 3 it's from urllib.parse import urlparse