How to safely get the file extension from a URL?

Question

Consider the following URLs

http://m3u.com/tunein.m3u
http://asxsomeurl.com/listen.asx:8024
http://www.plssomeotherurl.com/station.pls?id=111
http://22.198.133.16:802         


        

Answer 1

$ python3
Python 3.1.2 (release31-maint, Sep 17 2010, 20:27:33) 
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from os.path import splitext
>>> from urllib.parse import urlparse 
>>> 
>>> urls = [
...     'http://m3u.com/tunein.m3u',
...     'http://asxsomeurl.com/listen.asx:8024',
...     'http://www.plssomeotherurl.com/station.pls?id=111',
...     'http://22.198.133.16:8024',
... ]
>>> 
>>> for url in urls:
...     path = urlparse(url).path
...     ext = splitext(path)[1]
...     print(ext)
... 
.m3u
.asx:8024
.pls

>>>