The name of this module and the functions are somewhat arbitrary; they hark to other parts of the python library; e.g. uripath.join() is somewhat like os.path.join(). REFERENCES Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt The Web Model: Information hiding and URI syntax (Jan 98) http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Model.html URI API design [was: URI Test Suite] Dan Connolly (Sun, Aug 12 2001) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2001Aug/0021.html
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Relative or abolute unix-standard filenames parsed relative to this yeild the URI of the file. If we had a reliable way of getting a computer name, we should put it in the hostname just to prevent ambiguity
here is assumed to be absolute. there is URI reference. >>> join('http://example/x/y/z', '../abc') 'http://example/x/abc' Raise ValueError if there uses relative path syntax but here has no hierarchical path. >>> join('mid:foo@example', '../foo') Traceback (most recent call last): raise ValueError, here ValueError: Base <mid:foo@example> has no slash after colon - with relative '../foo'. We grok IRIs >>> len(u'Andr\xe9') 5 >>> join('http://example.org/', u'#Andr\xe9') u'http://example.org/#Andr\xe9'
>>> refTo('http://example/x/y/z', 'http://example/x/abc') '../abc' >>> refTo('file:/ex/x/y', 'file:/ex/x/q/r#s') 'q/r#s' >>> refTo(None, 'http://ex/x/y') 'http://ex/x/y' >>> refTo('http://ex/x/y', 'http://ex/x/y') '' Note the relationship between refTo and join: join(x, refTo(x, y)) == y which points out certain strings which cannot be URIs. e.g. >>> x='http://ex/x/y';y='http://ex/x/q:r';join(x, refTo(x, y)) == y 0 So 'http://ex/x/q:r' is not a URI. Use 'http://ex/x/q%3ar' instead: >>> x='http://ex/x/y';y='http://ex/x/q%3ar';join(x, refTo(x, y)) == y 1 This one checks that it uses a root-realtive one where that is all they share. Now uses root-relative where no path is shared. This is a matter of taste but tends to give more resilience IMHO -- and shorter paths Note that base may be None, meaning no base. In some situations, there just ain't a base. Slife. In these cases, relTo returns the absolute value. The axiom abs(,rel(b,x))=x still holds. This saves people having to set the base to "bogus:". >>> refTo('http://ex/x/y/z', 'http://ex/r') '/r'
Punctuation is thrown away. e.g. >>> splitFrag("abc#def") ('abc', 'def') >>> splitFrag("abcdef") ('abcdef', None)
Punctuation is kept. e.g. >>> splitFragP("abc#def") ('abc', '#def') >>> splitFragP("abcdef") ('abcdef', '')