URL Parsing Utility?

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:57:31PM -0500, will wrote:
> 
> This is a 5-line python script:
> 
> import sys, urllib
> try:
>    print urllib.unquote(sys.stdin.readline())
> except:
>    print "could not be unquoted."
> 
> 
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Kent Borg wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know of a simple but good little URL parser?

Cool, thanks!


Greedy, I have another question:

Is there a magic thingie I can put at the top of the script so that
bash will automatically send it off to python?

That is, I invoked it as:

  $ echo '%36%36%2E%333.%36%30%2E9%31%2Fme%65tp%65o%70%6C%65' | python unquote

But would like to do the simpler:

  $ echo '%36%36%2E%333.%36%30%2E9%31%2Fme%65tp%65o%70%6C%65' | unquote


Hell, if your fingers are just ~itching~ to add a couple more lines, I
wouldn't mind being able to say (in addition to still having stdin
available, of course):

  $ unquote '%36%36%2E%333.%36%30%2E9%31%2Fme%65tp%65o%70%6C%65'


Thanks,

-kb, the Kent who, after long thinking he should, is finally learning
a bit of python.