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Re: modifying parts of a urlparse.SplitResult

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Tim Chase wrote:

> I can successfully parse my URLs.  However, I'd like to modify a part
> then reassemble them.  However, like tuples, the parts appear to be
> unmodifiable
> 
>   >>> URL = 'http://foo/path1/path2/?fragment=foo'
>   >>> import urlparse
>   >>> u = urlparse.urlparse(URL)
>   >>> u
>   ParseResult(scheme='http', netloc='foo', path='/path1/path2/',
>   params='', query='fragment=foo', fragment='')
>   >>> u.query
>   'fragment=foo'
>   >>> u.query = 'blah=baz'
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   AttributeError: can't set attribute
> 
> The best I've been able to come up with is
> 
>   >>> u = urlparse.urlsplit(URL)
>   >>> lst = list(u) # can't manipulate the tuple directly
>   >>> lst[3] = "bar=baz" # 3 = query-string index
>   >>> urlparse.urlunsplit(lst)
>   'http://foo/path1/path2/?bar=baz'
> 
> It takes knowing that "3" is the magic index (documented, but not
> given some named-constant in urlparse) for the query-string.  Is
> there some better, clearer, or more Pythonic way to do this?

To allow more fieldnames namedtuples use method names starting with an 
underscore. You can safely use them, they are not private. So:

>>> pr = urlparse.urlparse("http://foo/path1/path2/?fragment=foo")
>>> urlparse.urlunparse(pr._replace(query="bar=baz"))
'http://foo/path1/path2/?bar=baz'

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Re: modifying parts of a urlparse.SplitResult Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-01-12 13:46 +0100

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