import urllib.parse python 2.7 code example
Example: how does urllib.parse.urlsplit work in python
>>> urllib.parse.urlparse("http://example.com/pa/th;param1=foo;param2=bar?name=val#frag")
ParseResult(scheme='http', netloc='example.com', path='/pa/th', params='param1=foo;param2=bar', query='name=val', fragment='frag')