Python | Split URL from Query Parameters

Sometimes, while web development, we can come across a task in which we may require to perform a split of query parameters from URLs which is done by ‘?’ character. This has application over web develment as well as other domains which involve URLs. Lets discuss certain ways in which this task can be performed.

Method #1 : Using split()
This is one of the way in which we can solve this problem. We split by ‘?’ and return the first part of split for result.

# Python3 code to demonstrate working of  
# Split URL from Query Parameters 
# Using split() 
  
# initializing string 
test_str = 'www.geeksforgeeks.org?is = best'
  
# printing original string 
print("The original string is : " + str(test_str)) 
  
# Split URL from Query Parameters 
# Using split() 
res = test_str.split('?')[0] 
  
# printing result  
print("The base URL is : " + res)  

Output :

The original string is : www.geeksforgeeks.org?is=best
The base URL is : www.geeksforgeeks.org

Method #2 : Using rfind()
This is another way in which we need to perform this task. In this, we find the first occurrence of ‘?’ from right and slice the string.

# Python3 code to demonstrate working of  
# Split URL from Query Parameters 
# Using rfind() 
  
# initializing string 
test_str = 'www.geeksforgeeks.org?is = best'
  
# printing original string 
print("The original string is : " + str(test_str)) 
  
# Split URL from Query Parameters 
# Using rfind() 
res = test_str[:test_str.rfind('?')] 
  
# printing result  
print("The base URL is : " + res)  

Output :

The original string is : www.geeksforgeeks.org?is=best
The base URL is : www.geeksforgeeks.org

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