Retrieving parameters from a URL

Question

Given a URL like the following, how can I parse the value of the query parameters? For example, in this case I want the value of def.

/abc?def='ghi'

I am using Django in my environment; is there a method on the request object that could help me?

I tried using self.request.get('def') but it is not returning the value ghi as I had hoped.

Answer 1

Python 2:

import urlparse
url = 'http://foo.appspot.com/abc?def=ghi'
parsed = urlparse.urlparse(url)
print urlparse.parse_qs(parsed.query)['def']

Python 3:

import urllib.parse as urlparse
from urllib.parse import parse_qs
url = 'http://foo.appspot.com/abc?def=ghi'
parsed = urlparse.urlparse(url)
print(parse_qs(parsed.query)['def'])

parse_qs returns a list of values, so the above code will print ['ghi'].

Here's the Python 3 documentation.