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<span id="urllib-parse-parse-urls-into-components"></span><h1><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urllib.parse</span></code> — Parse URLs into components<a class="headerlink" href="#module-urllib.parse" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="extlink-source reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.13/Lib/urllib/parse.py">Lib/urllib/parse.py</a></p>
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<p>This module defines a standard interface to break Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
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strings up in components (addressing scheme, network location, path etc.), to
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combine the components back into a URL string, and to convert a “relative URL”
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to an absolute URL given a “base URL.”</p>
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<p>The module has been designed to match the internet RFC on Relative Uniform
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Resource Locators. It supports the following URL schemes: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">file</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ftp</span></code>,
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<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gopher</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hdl</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">http</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">https</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">imap</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">itms-services</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mailto</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mms</span></code>,
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<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">news</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">nntp</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">prospero</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rsync</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rtsp</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rtsps</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">rtspu</span></code>,
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<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sftp</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">shttp</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sip</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sips</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">snews</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">svn</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">svn+ssh</span></code>,
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<p><strong>CPython implementation detail:</strong> The inclusion of the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">itms-services</span></code> URL scheme can prevent an app from
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passing Apple’s App Store review process for the macOS and iOS App Stores.
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Handling for the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">itms-services</span></code> scheme is always removed on iOS; on
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macOS, it <em>may</em> be removed if CPython has been built with the
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<a class="reference internal" href="../using/configure.html#cmdoption-with-app-store-compliance"><code class="xref std std-option docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--with-app-store-compliance</span></code></a> option.</p>
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<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-urllib.parse" title="urllib.parse: Parse URLs into or assemble them from components."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urllib.parse</span></code></a> module defines functions that fall into two broad
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categories: URL parsing and URL quoting. These are covered in detail in
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the following sections.</p>
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<p>This module’s functions use the deprecated term <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">netloc</span></code> (or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">net_loc</span></code>),
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which was introduced in <span class="target" id="index-1"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1808.html"><strong>RFC 1808</strong></a>. However, this term has been obsoleted by
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<span class="target" id="index-2"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986.html"><strong>RFC 3986</strong></a>, which introduced the term <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">authority</span></code> as its replacement.
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The use of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">netloc</span></code> is continued for backward compatibility.</p>
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<section id="url-parsing">
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<h2>URL Parsing<a class="headerlink" href="#url-parsing" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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<p>The URL parsing functions focus on splitting a URL string into its components,
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or on combining URL components into a URL string.</p>
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<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">urlparse</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">urlstring</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">scheme</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">''</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">allow_fragments</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">True</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.urlparse" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
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<dd><p>Parse a URL into six components, returning a 6-item <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-named-tuple"><span class="xref std std-term">named tuple</span></a>.  This
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corresponds to the general structure of a URL:
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<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">scheme://netloc/path;parameters?query#fragment</span></code>.
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Each tuple item is a string, possibly empty. The components are not broken up
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escapes are not expanded. The delimiters as shown above are not part of the
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result, except for a leading slash in the <em>path</em> component, which is retained if
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present.  For example:</p>
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<div class="highlight-pycon notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">urllib.parse</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">urlparse</span>
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<span class="go">ParseResult(scheme='scheme', netloc='netloc', path='/path;parameters', params='',</span>
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<span class="gp">... </span>             <span class="s2">"highlight=params#url-parsing"</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">o</span>
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<span class="go">ParseResult(scheme='http', netloc='docs.python.org:80',</span>
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<span class="go">            path='/3/library/urllib.parse.html', params='',</span>
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<span class="go">            query='highlight=params', fragment='url-parsing')</span>
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<span class="go">'http'</span>
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<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">o</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">netloc</span>
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<span class="go">'docs.python.org:80'</span>
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<span class="go">'docs.python.org'</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">o</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">port</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">80</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">o</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">_replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fragment</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">""</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">geturl</span><span class="p">()</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">'http://docs.python.org:80/3/library/urllib.parse.html?highlight=params'</span>
 | 
						||
</pre></div>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<p>Following the syntax specifications in <span class="target" id="index-3"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1808.html"><strong>RFC 1808</strong></a>, urlparse recognizes
 | 
						||
a netloc only if it is properly introduced by ‘//’.  Otherwise the
 | 
						||
input is presumed to be a relative URL and thus to start with
 | 
						||
a path component.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="highlight-pycon notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">urllib.parse</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">urlparse</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">urlparse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'//www.cwi.nl:80/</span><span class="si">%7E</span><span class="s1">guido/Python.html'</span><span class="p">)</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">ParseResult(scheme='', netloc='www.cwi.nl:80', path='/%7Eguido/Python.html',</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">            params='', query='', fragment='')</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">urlparse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'www.cwi.nl/</span><span class="si">%7E</span><span class="s1">guido/Python.html'</span><span class="p">)</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">ParseResult(scheme='', netloc='', path='www.cwi.nl/%7Eguido/Python.html',</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">            params='', query='', fragment='')</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">urlparse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'help/Python.html'</span><span class="p">)</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">ParseResult(scheme='', netloc='', path='help/Python.html', params='',</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">            query='', fragment='')</span>
 | 
						||
</pre></div>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<p>The <em>scheme</em> argument gives the default addressing scheme, to be
 | 
						||
used only if the URL does not specify one.  It should be the same type
 | 
						||
(text or bytes) as <em>urlstring</em>, except that the default value <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">''</span></code> is
 | 
						||
always allowed, and is automatically converted to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">b''</span></code> if appropriate.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>If the <em>allow_fragments</em> argument is false, fragment identifiers are not
 | 
						||
recognized.  Instead, they are parsed as part of the path, parameters
 | 
						||
or query component, and <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fragment</span></code> is set to the empty string in
 | 
						||
the return value.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The return value is a <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-named-tuple"><span class="xref std std-term">named tuple</span></a>, which means that its items can
 | 
						||
be accessed by index or as named attributes, which are:</p>
 | 
						||
<table class="docutils align-default">
 | 
						||
<thead>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Attribute</p></th>
 | 
						||
<th class="head"><p>Index</p></th>
 | 
						||
<th class="head"><p>Value</p></th>
 | 
						||
<th class="head"><p>Value if not present</p></th>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
</thead>
 | 
						||
<tbody>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">scheme</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>0</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>URL scheme specifier</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p><em>scheme</em> parameter</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">netloc</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>1</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Network location part</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>empty string</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">path</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>2</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Hierarchical path</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>empty string</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">params</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>3</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Parameters for last
 | 
						||
path element</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>empty string</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">query</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>4</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Query component</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>empty string</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fragment</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>5</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Fragment identifier</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>empty string</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">username</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>User name</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a></p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">password</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Password</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a></p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hostname</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Host name (lower case)</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a></p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">port</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Port number as integer,
 | 
						||
if present</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a></p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
</tbody>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
<p>Reading the <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">port</span></code> attribute will raise a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> if
 | 
						||
an invalid port is specified in the URL.  See section
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="#urlparse-result-object"><span class="std std-ref">Structured Parse Results</span></a> for more information on the result object.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Unmatched square brackets in the <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">netloc</span></code> attribute will raise a
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a>.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Characters in the <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">netloc</span></code> attribute that decompose under NFKC
 | 
						||
normalization (as used by the IDNA encoding) into any of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">?</span></code>,
 | 
						||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">#</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">@</span></code>, or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:</span></code> will raise a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a>. If the URL is
 | 
						||
decomposed before parsing, no error will be raised.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>As is the case with all named tuples, the subclass has a few additional methods
 | 
						||
and attributes that are particularly useful. One such method is <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_replace()</span></code>.
 | 
						||
The <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_replace()</span></code> method will return a new ParseResult object replacing specified
 | 
						||
fields with new values.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="highlight-pycon notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">urllib.parse</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">urlparse</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">u</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">urlparse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'//www.cwi.nl:80/</span><span class="si">%7E</span><span class="s1">guido/Python.html'</span><span class="p">)</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">u</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">ParseResult(scheme='', netloc='www.cwi.nl:80', path='/%7Eguido/Python.html',</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">            params='', query='', fragment='')</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">u</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">_replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">scheme</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">'http'</span><span class="p">)</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">ParseResult(scheme='http', netloc='www.cwi.nl:80', path='/%7Eguido/Python.html',</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">            params='', query='', fragment='')</span>
 | 
						||
</pre></div>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="admonition warning">
 | 
						||
<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
 | 
						||
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlparse" title="urllib.parse.urlparse"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlparse()</span></code></a> does not perform validation.  See <a class="reference internal" href="#url-parsing-security"><span class="std std-ref">URL parsing
 | 
						||
security</span></a> for details.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span>Added IPv6 URL parsing capabilities.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>The fragment is now parsed for all URL schemes (unless <em>allow_fragments</em> is
 | 
						||
false), in accordance with <span class="target" id="index-4"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986.html"><strong>RFC 3986</strong></a>.  Previously, an allowlist of
 | 
						||
schemes that support fragments existed.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.6: </span>Out-of-range port numbers now raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a>, instead of
 | 
						||
returning <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a>.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>Characters that affect netloc parsing under NFKC normalization will
 | 
						||
now raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a>.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.parse_qs">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">parse_qs</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">qs</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">keep_blank_values</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">False</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">strict_parsing</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">False</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">encoding</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">'utf-8'</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">errors</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">'replace'</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">max_num_fields</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">separator</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">'&'</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.parse_qs" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Parse a query string given as a string argument (data of type
 | 
						||
<em class="mimetype">application/x-www-form-urlencoded</em>).  Data are returned as a
 | 
						||
dictionary.  The dictionary keys are the unique query variable names and the
 | 
						||
values are lists of values for each name.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The optional argument <em>keep_blank_values</em> is a flag indicating whether blank
 | 
						||
values in percent-encoded queries should be treated as blank strings. A true value
 | 
						||
indicates that blanks should be retained as  blank strings.  The default false
 | 
						||
value indicates that blank values are to be ignored and treated as if they were
 | 
						||
not included.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The optional argument <em>strict_parsing</em> is a flag indicating what to do with
 | 
						||
parsing errors.  If false (the default), errors are silently ignored.  If true,
 | 
						||
errors raise a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> exception.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The optional <em>encoding</em> and <em>errors</em> parameters specify how to decode
 | 
						||
percent-encoded sequences into Unicode characters, as accepted by the
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes.decode" title="bytes.decode"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes.decode()</span></code></a> method.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The optional argument <em>max_num_fields</em> is the maximum number of fields to
 | 
						||
read. If set, then throws a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> if there are more than
 | 
						||
<em>max_num_fields</em> fields read.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The optional argument <em>separator</em> is the symbol to use for separating the
 | 
						||
query arguments. It defaults to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&</span></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Use the <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlencode" title="urllib.parse.urlencode"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.urlencode()</span></code></a> function (with the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">doseq</span></code>
 | 
						||
parameter set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code>) to convert such dictionaries into query
 | 
						||
strings.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span>Add <em>encoding</em> and <em>errors</em> parameters.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>Added <em>max_num_fields</em> parameter.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.10: </span>Added <em>separator</em> parameter with the default value of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&</span></code>. Python
 | 
						||
versions earlier than Python 3.10 allowed using both <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">;</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&</span></code> as
 | 
						||
query parameter separator. This has been changed to allow only a single
 | 
						||
separator key, with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&</span></code> as the default separator.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.parse_qsl">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">parse_qsl</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">qs</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">keep_blank_values</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">False</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">strict_parsing</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">False</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">encoding</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">'utf-8'</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">errors</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">'replace'</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">max_num_fields</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">separator</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">'&'</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.parse_qsl" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Parse a query string given as a string argument (data of type
 | 
						||
<em class="mimetype">application/x-www-form-urlencoded</em>).  Data are returned as a list of
 | 
						||
name, value pairs.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The optional argument <em>keep_blank_values</em> is a flag indicating whether blank
 | 
						||
values in percent-encoded queries should be treated as blank strings. A true value
 | 
						||
indicates that blanks should be retained as  blank strings.  The default false
 | 
						||
value indicates that blank values are to be ignored and treated as if they were
 | 
						||
not included.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The optional argument <em>strict_parsing</em> is a flag indicating what to do with
 | 
						||
parsing errors.  If false (the default), errors are silently ignored.  If true,
 | 
						||
errors raise a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> exception.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The optional <em>encoding</em> and <em>errors</em> parameters specify how to decode
 | 
						||
percent-encoded sequences into Unicode characters, as accepted by the
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes.decode" title="bytes.decode"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes.decode()</span></code></a> method.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The optional argument <em>max_num_fields</em> is the maximum number of fields to
 | 
						||
read. If set, then throws a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> if there are more than
 | 
						||
<em>max_num_fields</em> fields read.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The optional argument <em>separator</em> is the symbol to use for separating the
 | 
						||
query arguments. It defaults to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&</span></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Use the <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlencode" title="urllib.parse.urlencode"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.urlencode()</span></code></a> function to convert such lists of pairs into
 | 
						||
query strings.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span>Add <em>encoding</em> and <em>errors</em> parameters.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>Added <em>max_num_fields</em> parameter.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.10: </span>Added <em>separator</em> parameter with the default value of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&</span></code>. Python
 | 
						||
versions earlier than Python 3.10 allowed using both <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">;</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&</span></code> as
 | 
						||
query parameter separator. This has been changed to allow only a single
 | 
						||
separator key, with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&</span></code> as the default separator.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.urlunparse">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">urlunparse</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">parts</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.urlunparse" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Construct a URL from a tuple as returned by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlparse()</span></code>. The <em>parts</em>
 | 
						||
argument can be any six-item iterable. This may result in a slightly
 | 
						||
different, but equivalent URL, if the URL that was parsed originally had
 | 
						||
unnecessary delimiters (for example, a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">?</span></code> with an empty query; the RFC
 | 
						||
states that these are equivalent).</p>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.urlsplit">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">urlsplit</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">urlstring</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">scheme</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">''</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">allow_fragments</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">True</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.urlsplit" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>This is similar to <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlparse" title="urllib.parse.urlparse"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlparse()</span></code></a>, but does not split the params from the URL.
 | 
						||
This should generally be used instead of <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlparse" title="urllib.parse.urlparse"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlparse()</span></code></a> if the more recent URL
 | 
						||
syntax allowing parameters to be applied to each segment of the <em>path</em> portion
 | 
						||
of the URL (see <span class="target" id="index-5"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2396.html"><strong>RFC 2396</strong></a>) is wanted.  A separate function is needed to
 | 
						||
separate the path segments and parameters.  This function returns a 5-item
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-named-tuple"><span class="xref std std-term">named tuple</span></a>:</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">addressing</span> <span class="n">scheme</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">network</span> <span class="n">location</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">path</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">query</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fragment</span> <span class="n">identifier</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span>
 | 
						||
</pre></div>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<p>The return value is a <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-named-tuple"><span class="xref std std-term">named tuple</span></a>, its items can be accessed by index
 | 
						||
or as named attributes:</p>
 | 
						||
<table class="docutils align-default">
 | 
						||
<thead>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Attribute</p></th>
 | 
						||
<th class="head"><p>Index</p></th>
 | 
						||
<th class="head"><p>Value</p></th>
 | 
						||
<th class="head"><p>Value if not present</p></th>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
</thead>
 | 
						||
<tbody>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">scheme</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>0</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>URL scheme specifier</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p><em>scheme</em> parameter</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">netloc</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>1</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Network location part</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>empty string</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">path</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>2</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Hierarchical path</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>empty string</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">query</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>3</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Query component</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>empty string</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fragment</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>4</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Fragment identifier</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>empty string</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">username</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>User name</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a></p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">password</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Password</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a></p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hostname</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Host name (lower case)</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a></p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">port</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Port number as integer,
 | 
						||
if present</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a></p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
</tbody>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
<p>Reading the <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">port</span></code> attribute will raise a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> if
 | 
						||
an invalid port is specified in the URL.  See section
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="#urlparse-result-object"><span class="std std-ref">Structured Parse Results</span></a> for more information on the result object.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Unmatched square brackets in the <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">netloc</span></code> attribute will raise a
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a>.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Characters in the <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">netloc</span></code> attribute that decompose under NFKC
 | 
						||
normalization (as used by the IDNA encoding) into any of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">?</span></code>,
 | 
						||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">#</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">@</span></code>, or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:</span></code> will raise a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a>. If the URL is
 | 
						||
decomposed before parsing, no error will be raised.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Following some of the <a class="reference external" href="https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-basic-url-parser">WHATWG spec</a> that updates RFC 3986, leading C0
 | 
						||
control and space characters are stripped from the URL. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">\n</span></code>,
 | 
						||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">\r</span></code> and tab <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">\t</span></code> characters are removed from the URL at any position.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="admonition warning">
 | 
						||
<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
 | 
						||
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlsplit" title="urllib.parse.urlsplit"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlsplit()</span></code></a> does not perform validation.  See <a class="reference internal" href="#url-parsing-security"><span class="std std-ref">URL parsing
 | 
						||
security</span></a> for details.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.6: </span>Out-of-range port numbers now raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a>, instead of
 | 
						||
returning <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a>.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.8: </span>Characters that affect netloc parsing under NFKC normalization will
 | 
						||
now raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a>.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.10: </span>ASCII newline and tab characters are stripped from the URL.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.12: </span>Leading WHATWG C0 control and space characters are stripped from the URL.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.urlunsplit">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">urlunsplit</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">parts</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.urlunsplit" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Combine the elements of a tuple as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlsplit" title="urllib.parse.urlsplit"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlsplit()</span></code></a> into a
 | 
						||
complete URL as a string. The <em>parts</em> argument can be any five-item
 | 
						||
iterable. This may result in a slightly different, but equivalent URL, if the
 | 
						||
URL that was parsed originally had unnecessary delimiters (for example, a ?
 | 
						||
with an empty query; the RFC states that these are equivalent).</p>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.urljoin">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">urljoin</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">base</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">url</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">allow_fragments</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">True</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.urljoin" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Construct a full (“absolute”) URL by combining a “base URL” (<em>base</em>) with
 | 
						||
another URL (<em>url</em>).  Informally, this uses components of the base URL, in
 | 
						||
particular the addressing scheme, the network location and (part of) the
 | 
						||
path, to provide missing components in the relative URL.  For example:</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="doctest highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">urllib.parse</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">urljoin</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">urljoin</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'http://www.cwi.nl/</span><span class="si">%7E</span><span class="s1">guido/Python.html'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'FAQ.html'</span><span class="p">)</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">'http://www.cwi.nl/%7Eguido/FAQ.html'</span>
 | 
						||
</pre></div>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<p>The <em>allow_fragments</em> argument has the same meaning and default as for
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlparse" title="urllib.parse.urlparse"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlparse()</span></code></a>.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="admonition note">
 | 
						||
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
 | 
						||
<p>If <em>url</em> is an absolute URL (that is, it starts with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">//</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">scheme://</span></code>),
 | 
						||
the <em>url</em>’s hostname and/or scheme will be present in the result.  For example:</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="highlight-pycon notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">urljoin</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'http://www.cwi.nl/</span><span class="si">%7E</span><span class="s1">guido/Python.html'</span><span class="p">,</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">... </span>        <span class="s1">'//www.python.org/</span><span class="si">%7E</span><span class="s1">guido'</span><span class="p">)</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">'http://www.python.org/%7Eguido'</span>
 | 
						||
</pre></div>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<p>If you do not want that behavior, preprocess the <em>url</em> with <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlsplit" title="urllib.parse.urlsplit"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlsplit()</span></code></a> and
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlunsplit" title="urllib.parse.urlunsplit"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlunsplit()</span></code></a>, removing possible <em>scheme</em> and <em>netloc</em> parts.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="admonition warning">
 | 
						||
<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Because an absolute URL may be passed as the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">url</span></code> parameter, it is
 | 
						||
generally <strong>not secure</strong> to use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urljoin</span></code> with an attacker-controlled
 | 
						||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">url</span></code>. For example in,
 | 
						||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urljoin("https://website.com/users/",</span> <span class="pre">username)</span></code>, if <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">username</span></code> can
 | 
						||
contain an absolute URL, the result of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urljoin</span></code> will be the absolute
 | 
						||
URL.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.5: </span>Behavior updated to match the semantics defined in <span class="target" id="index-6"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986.html"><strong>RFC 3986</strong></a>.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.urldefrag">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">urldefrag</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">url</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.urldefrag" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>If <em>url</em> contains a fragment identifier, return a modified version of <em>url</em>
 | 
						||
with no fragment identifier, and the fragment identifier as a separate
 | 
						||
string.  If there is no fragment identifier in <em>url</em>, return <em>url</em> unmodified
 | 
						||
and an empty string.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The return value is a <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-named-tuple"><span class="xref std std-term">named tuple</span></a>, its items can be accessed by index
 | 
						||
or as named attributes:</p>
 | 
						||
<table class="docutils align-default">
 | 
						||
<thead>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Attribute</p></th>
 | 
						||
<th class="head"><p>Index</p></th>
 | 
						||
<th class="head"><p>Value</p></th>
 | 
						||
<th class="head"><p>Value if not present</p></th>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
</thead>
 | 
						||
<tbody>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">url</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>0</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>URL with no fragment</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>empty string</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fragment</span></code></p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>1</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>Fragment identifier</p></td>
 | 
						||
<td><p>empty string</p></td>
 | 
						||
</tr>
 | 
						||
</tbody>
 | 
						||
</table>
 | 
						||
<p>See section <a class="reference internal" href="#urlparse-result-object"><span class="std std-ref">Structured Parse Results</span></a> for more information on the result
 | 
						||
object.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span>Result is a structured object rather than a simple 2-tuple.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.unwrap">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">unwrap</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">url</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.unwrap" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Extract the url from a wrapped URL (that is, a string formatted as
 | 
						||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre"><URL:scheme://host/path></span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre"><scheme://host/path></span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">URL:scheme://host/path</span></code>
 | 
						||
or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">scheme://host/path</span></code>). If <em>url</em> is not a wrapped URL, it is returned
 | 
						||
without changes.</p>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</section>
 | 
						||
<section id="url-parsing-security">
 | 
						||
<span id="id1"></span><h2>URL parsing security<a class="headerlink" href="#url-parsing-security" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlsplit" title="urllib.parse.urlsplit"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlsplit()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlparse" title="urllib.parse.urlparse"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlparse()</span></code></a> APIs do not perform <strong>validation</strong> of
 | 
						||
inputs.  They may not raise errors on inputs that other applications consider
 | 
						||
invalid.  They may also succeed on some inputs that might not be considered
 | 
						||
URLs elsewhere.  Their purpose is for practical functionality rather than
 | 
						||
purity.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Instead of raising an exception on unusual input, they may instead return some
 | 
						||
component parts as empty strings. Or components may contain more than perhaps
 | 
						||
they should.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>We recommend that users of these APIs where the values may be used anywhere
 | 
						||
with security implications code defensively. Do some verification within your
 | 
						||
code before trusting a returned component part.  Does that <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">scheme</span></code> make
 | 
						||
sense?  Is that a sensible <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">path</span></code>?  Is there anything strange about that
 | 
						||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hostname</span></code>?  etc.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>What constitutes a URL is not universally well defined.  Different applications
 | 
						||
have different needs and desired constraints.  For instance the living <a class="reference external" href="https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-basic-url-parser">WHATWG
 | 
						||
spec</a> describes what user facing web clients such as a web browser require.
 | 
						||
While <span class="target" id="index-7"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986.html"><strong>RFC 3986</strong></a> is more general.  These functions incorporate some aspects of
 | 
						||
both, but cannot be claimed compliant with either.  The APIs and existing user
 | 
						||
code with expectations on specific behaviors predate both standards leading us
 | 
						||
to be very cautious about making API behavior changes.</p>
 | 
						||
</section>
 | 
						||
<section id="parsing-ascii-encoded-bytes">
 | 
						||
<span id="id2"></span><h2>Parsing ASCII Encoded Bytes<a class="headerlink" href="#parsing-ascii-encoded-bytes" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<p>The URL parsing functions were originally designed to operate on character
 | 
						||
strings only. In practice, it is useful to be able to manipulate properly
 | 
						||
quoted and encoded URLs as sequences of ASCII bytes. Accordingly, the
 | 
						||
URL parsing functions in this module all operate on <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> and
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytearray" title="bytearray"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytearray</span></code></a> objects in addition to <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> objects.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>If <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> data is passed in, the result will also contain only
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> data. If <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytearray" title="bytearray"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytearray</span></code></a> data is
 | 
						||
passed in, the result will contain only <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> data.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Attempting to mix <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> data with <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> or
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytearray" title="bytearray"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytearray</span></code></a> in a single function call will result in a
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> being raised, while attempting to pass in non-ASCII
 | 
						||
byte values will trigger <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#UnicodeDecodeError" title="UnicodeDecodeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">UnicodeDecodeError</span></code></a>.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>To support easier conversion of result objects between <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> and
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a>, all return values from URL parsing functions provide
 | 
						||
either an <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">encode()</span></code> method (when the result contains <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
data) or a <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">decode()</span></code> method (when the result contains <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
data). The signatures of these methods match those of the corresponding
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> methods (except that the default encoding
 | 
						||
is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'ascii'</span></code> rather than <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'utf-8'</span></code>). Each produces a value of a
 | 
						||
corresponding type that contains either <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> data (for
 | 
						||
<code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">encode()</span></code> methods) or <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> data (for
 | 
						||
<code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">decode()</span></code> methods).</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Applications that need to operate on potentially improperly quoted URLs
 | 
						||
that may contain non-ASCII data will need to do their own decoding from
 | 
						||
bytes to characters before invoking the URL parsing methods.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The behaviour described in this section applies only to the URL parsing
 | 
						||
functions. The URL quoting functions use their own rules when producing
 | 
						||
or consuming byte sequences as detailed in the documentation of the
 | 
						||
individual URL quoting functions.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span>URL parsing functions now accept ASCII encoded byte sequences</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</section>
 | 
						||
<section id="structured-parse-results">
 | 
						||
<span id="urlparse-result-object"></span><h2>Structured Parse Results<a class="headerlink" href="#structured-parse-results" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<p>The result objects from the <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlparse" title="urllib.parse.urlparse"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlparse()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlsplit" title="urllib.parse.urlsplit"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlsplit()</span></code></a>  and
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urldefrag" title="urllib.parse.urldefrag"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urldefrag()</span></code></a> functions are subclasses of the <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#tuple" title="tuple"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tuple</span></code></a> type.
 | 
						||
These subclasses add the attributes listed in the documentation for
 | 
						||
those functions, the encoding and decoding support described in the
 | 
						||
previous section, as well as an additional method:</p>
 | 
						||
<dl class="py method">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.urllib.parse.SplitResult.geturl">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.SplitResult.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">geturl</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.urllib.parse.SplitResult.geturl" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Return the re-combined version of the original URL as a string. This may
 | 
						||
differ from the original URL in that the scheme may be normalized to lower
 | 
						||
case and empty components may be dropped. Specifically, empty parameters,
 | 
						||
queries, and fragment identifiers will be removed.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>For <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urldefrag" title="urllib.parse.urldefrag"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urldefrag()</span></code></a> results, only empty fragment identifiers will be removed.
 | 
						||
For <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlsplit" title="urllib.parse.urlsplit"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlsplit()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlparse" title="urllib.parse.urlparse"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlparse()</span></code></a> results, all noted changes will be
 | 
						||
made to the URL returned by this method.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The result of this method remains unchanged if passed back through the original
 | 
						||
parsing function:</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="doctest highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">from</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">urllib.parse</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">urlsplit</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">url</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'HTTP://www.Python.org/doc/#'</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">r1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">urlsplit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">url</span><span class="p">)</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">r1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">geturl</span><span class="p">()</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">'http://www.Python.org/doc/'</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">r2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">urlsplit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">r1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">geturl</span><span class="p">())</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">r2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">geturl</span><span class="p">()</span>
 | 
						||
<span class="go">'http://www.Python.org/doc/'</span>
 | 
						||
</pre></div>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<p>The following classes provide the implementations of the structured parse
 | 
						||
results when operating on <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> objects:</p>
 | 
						||
<dl class="py class">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.DefragResult">
 | 
						||
<em class="property"><span class="k"><span class="pre">class</span></span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DefragResult</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">url</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">fragment</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.DefragResult" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Concrete class for <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urldefrag" title="urllib.parse.urldefrag"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urldefrag()</span></code></a> results containing <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
data. The <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">encode()</span></code> method returns a <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.DefragResultBytes" title="urllib.parse.DefragResultBytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DefragResultBytes</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
instance.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionadded">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.2.</span></p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py class">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.ParseResult">
 | 
						||
<em class="property"><span class="k"><span class="pre">class</span></span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ParseResult</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">scheme</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">netloc</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">path</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">params</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">query</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">fragment</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.ParseResult" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Concrete class for <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlparse" title="urllib.parse.urlparse"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlparse()</span></code></a> results containing <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
data. The <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">encode()</span></code> method returns a <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.ParseResultBytes" title="urllib.parse.ParseResultBytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ParseResultBytes</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
instance.</p>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py class">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.SplitResult">
 | 
						||
<em class="property"><span class="k"><span class="pre">class</span></span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">SplitResult</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">scheme</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">netloc</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">path</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">query</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">fragment</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.SplitResult" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Concrete class for <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlsplit" title="urllib.parse.urlsplit"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlsplit()</span></code></a> results containing <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
data. The <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">encode()</span></code> method returns a <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.SplitResultBytes" title="urllib.parse.SplitResultBytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SplitResultBytes</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
instance.</p>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<p>The following classes provide the implementations of the parse results when
 | 
						||
operating on <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytearray" title="bytearray"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytearray</span></code></a> objects:</p>
 | 
						||
<dl class="py class">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.DefragResultBytes">
 | 
						||
<em class="property"><span class="k"><span class="pre">class</span></span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DefragResultBytes</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">url</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">fragment</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.DefragResultBytes" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Concrete class for <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urldefrag" title="urllib.parse.urldefrag"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urldefrag()</span></code></a> results containing <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
data. The <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">decode()</span></code> method returns a <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.DefragResult" title="urllib.parse.DefragResult"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DefragResult</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
instance.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionadded">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.2.</span></p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py class">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.ParseResultBytes">
 | 
						||
<em class="property"><span class="k"><span class="pre">class</span></span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ParseResultBytes</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">scheme</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">netloc</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">path</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">params</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">query</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">fragment</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.ParseResultBytes" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Concrete class for <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlparse" title="urllib.parse.urlparse"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlparse()</span></code></a> results containing <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
data. The <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">decode()</span></code> method returns a <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.ParseResult" title="urllib.parse.ParseResult"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ParseResult</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
instance.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionadded">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.2.</span></p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py class">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.SplitResultBytes">
 | 
						||
<em class="property"><span class="k"><span class="pre">class</span></span><span class="w"> </span></em><span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">SplitResultBytes</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">scheme</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">netloc</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">path</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">query</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">fragment</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.SplitResultBytes" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Concrete class for <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlsplit" title="urllib.parse.urlsplit"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlsplit()</span></code></a> results containing <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
data. The <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">decode()</span></code> method returns a <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.SplitResult" title="urllib.parse.SplitResult"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SplitResult</span></code></a>
 | 
						||
instance.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionadded">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.2.</span></p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
</section>
 | 
						||
<section id="url-quoting">
 | 
						||
<h2>URL Quoting<a class="headerlink" href="#url-quoting" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
 | 
						||
<p>The URL quoting functions focus on taking program data and making it safe
 | 
						||
for use as URL components by quoting special characters and appropriately
 | 
						||
encoding non-ASCII text. They also support reversing these operations to
 | 
						||
recreate the original data from the contents of a URL component if that
 | 
						||
task isn’t already covered by the URL parsing functions above.</p>
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.quote">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">quote</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">string</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">safe</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">'/'</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">encoding</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">errors</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.quote" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Replace special characters in <em>string</em> using the <code class="samp docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%</span><em><span class="pre">xx</span></em></code> escape. Letters,
 | 
						||
digits, and the characters <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'_.-~'</span></code> are never quoted. By default, this
 | 
						||
function is intended for quoting the path section of a URL. The optional
 | 
						||
<em>safe</em> parameter specifies additional ASCII characters that should not be
 | 
						||
quoted — its default value is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'/'</span></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
<p><em>string</em> may be either a <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> or a <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> object.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.7: </span>Moved from <span class="target" id="index-8"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2396.html"><strong>RFC 2396</strong></a> to <span class="target" id="index-9"></span><a class="rfc reference external" href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986.html"><strong>RFC 3986</strong></a> for quoting URL strings. “~” is now
 | 
						||
included in the set of unreserved characters.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<p>The optional <em>encoding</em> and <em>errors</em> parameters specify how to deal with
 | 
						||
non-ASCII characters, as accepted by the <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str.encode" title="str.encode"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str.encode()</span></code></a> method.
 | 
						||
<em>encoding</em> defaults to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'utf-8'</span></code>.
 | 
						||
<em>errors</em> defaults to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'strict'</span></code>, meaning unsupported characters raise a
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#UnicodeEncodeError" title="UnicodeEncodeError"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">UnicodeEncodeError</span></code></a>.
 | 
						||
<em>encoding</em> and <em>errors</em> must not be supplied if <em>string</em> is a
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a>, or a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> is raised.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Note that <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">quote(string,</span> <span class="pre">safe,</span> <span class="pre">encoding,</span> <span class="pre">errors)</span></code> is equivalent to
 | 
						||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">quote_from_bytes(string.encode(encoding,</span> <span class="pre">errors),</span> <span class="pre">safe)</span></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Example: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">quote('/El</span> <span class="pre">Niño/')</span></code> yields <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'/El%20Ni%C3%B1o/'</span></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.quote_plus">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">quote_plus</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">string</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">safe</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">''</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">encoding</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">errors</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.quote_plus" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Like <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.quote" title="urllib.parse.quote"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">quote()</span></code></a>, but also replace spaces with plus signs, as required for
 | 
						||
quoting HTML form values when building up a query string to go into a URL.
 | 
						||
Plus signs in the original string are escaped unless they are included in
 | 
						||
<em>safe</em>.  It also does not have <em>safe</em> default to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'/'</span></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Example: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">quote_plus('/El</span> <span class="pre">Niño/')</span></code> yields <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'%2FEl+Ni%C3%B1o%2F'</span></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.quote_from_bytes">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">quote_from_bytes</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">bytes</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">safe</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">'/'</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.quote_from_bytes" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Like <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.quote" title="urllib.parse.quote"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">quote()</span></code></a>, but accepts a <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> object rather than a
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a>, and does not perform string-to-bytes encoding.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Example: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">quote_from_bytes(b'a&\xef')</span></code> yields
 | 
						||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'a%26%EF'</span></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.unquote">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">unquote</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">string</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">encoding</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">'utf-8'</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">errors</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">'replace'</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.unquote" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Replace <code class="samp docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%</span><em><span class="pre">xx</span></em></code> escapes with their single-character equivalent.
 | 
						||
The optional <em>encoding</em> and <em>errors</em> parameters specify how to decode
 | 
						||
percent-encoded sequences into Unicode characters, as accepted by the
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes.decode" title="bytes.decode"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes.decode()</span></code></a> method.</p>
 | 
						||
<p><em>string</em> may be either a <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> or a <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> object.</p>
 | 
						||
<p><em>encoding</em> defaults to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'utf-8'</span></code>.
 | 
						||
<em>errors</em> defaults to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'replace'</span></code>, meaning invalid sequences are replaced
 | 
						||
by a placeholder character.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Example: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unquote('/El%20Ni%C3%B1o/')</span></code> yields <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'/El</span> <span class="pre">Niño/'</span></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.9: </span><em>string</em> parameter supports bytes and str objects (previously only str).</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.unquote_plus">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">unquote_plus</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">string</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">encoding</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">'utf-8'</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">errors</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">'replace'</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.unquote_plus" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Like <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.unquote" title="urllib.parse.unquote"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unquote()</span></code></a>, but also replace plus signs with spaces, as required
 | 
						||
for unquoting HTML form values.</p>
 | 
						||
<p><em>string</em> must be a <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a>.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Example: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unquote_plus('/El+Ni%C3%B1o/')</span></code> yields <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'/El</span> <span class="pre">Niño/'</span></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">unquote_to_bytes</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">string</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Replace <code class="samp docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%</span><em><span class="pre">xx</span></em></code> escapes with their single-octet equivalent, and return a
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> object.</p>
 | 
						||
<p><em>string</em> may be either a <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> or a <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> object.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>If it is a <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a>, unescaped non-ASCII characters in <em>string</em>
 | 
						||
are encoded into UTF-8 bytes.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Example: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unquote_to_bytes('a%26%EF')</span></code> yields <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">b'a&\xef'</span></code>.</p>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<dl class="py function">
 | 
						||
<dt class="sig sig-object py" id="urllib.parse.urlencode">
 | 
						||
<span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">urlencode</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">query</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">doseq</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">False</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">safe</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">''</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">encoding</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">errors</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">None</span></span></em>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">quote_via</span></span><span class="o"><span class="pre">=</span></span><span class="default_value"><span class="pre">quote_plus</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#urllib.parse.urlencode" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
 | 
						||
<dd><p>Convert a mapping object or a sequence of two-element tuples, which may
 | 
						||
contain <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#bytes" title="bytes"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bytes</span></code></a> objects, to a percent-encoded ASCII
 | 
						||
text string.  If the resultant string is to be used as a <em>data</em> for POST
 | 
						||
operation with the <a class="reference internal" href="urllib.request.html#urllib.request.urlopen" title="urllib.request.urlopen"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urlopen()</span></code></a> function, then
 | 
						||
it should be encoded to bytes, otherwise it would result in a
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a>.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The resulting string is a series of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">key=value</span></code> pairs separated by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'&'</span></code>
 | 
						||
characters, where both <em>key</em> and <em>value</em> are quoted using the <em>quote_via</em>
 | 
						||
function.  By default, <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.quote_plus" title="urllib.parse.quote_plus"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">quote_plus()</span></code></a> is used to quote the values, which
 | 
						||
means spaces are quoted as a <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'+'</span></code> character and ‘/’ characters are
 | 
						||
encoded as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%2F</span></code>, which follows the standard for GET requests
 | 
						||
(<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">application/x-www-form-urlencoded</span></code>).  An alternate function that can be
 | 
						||
passed as <em>quote_via</em> is <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.quote" title="urllib.parse.quote"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">quote()</span></code></a>, which will encode spaces as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%20</span></code>
 | 
						||
and not encode ‘/’ characters.  For maximum control of what is quoted, use
 | 
						||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">quote</span></code> and specify a value for <em>safe</em>.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>When a sequence of two-element tuples is used as the <em>query</em>
 | 
						||
argument, the first element of each tuple is a key and the second is a
 | 
						||
value. The value element in itself can be a sequence and in that case, if
 | 
						||
the optional parameter <em>doseq</em> evaluates to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code>, individual
 | 
						||
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">key=value</span></code> pairs separated by <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'&'</span></code> are generated for each element of
 | 
						||
the value sequence for the key.  The order of parameters in the encoded
 | 
						||
string will match the order of parameter tuples in the sequence.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>The <em>safe</em>, <em>encoding</em>, and <em>errors</em> parameters are passed down to
 | 
						||
<em>quote_via</em> (the <em>encoding</em> and <em>errors</em> parameters are only passed
 | 
						||
when a query element is a <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str</span></code></a>).</p>
 | 
						||
<p>To reverse this encoding process, <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.parse_qs" title="urllib.parse.parse_qs"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">parse_qs()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.parse_qsl" title="urllib.parse.parse_qsl"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">parse_qsl()</span></code></a> are
 | 
						||
provided in this module to parse query strings into Python data structures.</p>
 | 
						||
<p>Refer to <a class="reference internal" href="urllib.request.html#urllib-examples"><span class="std std-ref">urllib examples</span></a> to find out how the
 | 
						||
<a class="reference internal" href="#urllib.parse.urlencode" title="urllib.parse.urlencode"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.urlencode()</span></code></a> method can be used for generating the query
 | 
						||
string of a URL or data for a POST request.</p>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span><em>query</em> supports bytes and string objects.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
<div class="versionchanged">
 | 
						||
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.5: </span>Added the <em>quote_via</em> parameter.</p>
 | 
						||
</div>
 | 
						||
</dd></dl>
 | 
						||
 | 
						||
<div class="admonition seealso">
 | 
						||
<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
 | 
						||
<dl class="simple">
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