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Splitting URLs for Effective Parsing with Python's urllib

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 8, 2024

When working with URLs in Python, it's often useful to split a URL string into its individual components. The urllib module provides tools to accomplish this via the urllib.parse.urlsplit() function.

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