Get Self/Base URL in Python

This is simple tutorial, more like a snippet. That shows you how you can get your domain from address bar. For example you are browsing our site and your URL in address bar is "/tutorial/get-self-base-url-appengine-urlparse". With this script you can get the domain out of it, that would be "www.browse-tutorials.com".

Base URL:
This is a part of my python file of my Google AppEngine application. I wanted to use base url in my view and this is how I do it. Don't forget to add the library.

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from urlparse import urlparse
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	def get(self):
		template_values = {
			#This is the part where we get base_url from
			#self and using urlparse we get the domain name.
			'base_url': urlparse(self.request.url).netloc,
		}
 
	path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'template/index_card.html')
	self.response.out.write(template.render(path, template_values))
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Programming Language: Python

The same thing in Python console.

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user_name@computer_name:~$ python
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from urlparse import urlparse
>>> url = '/tutorial/get-self-base-url-appengine-urlparse'
>>> url
'/tutorial/get-self-base-url-appengine-urlparse'
>>> url_array = urlparse(url)
>>> url_array
ParseResult(scheme='http', netloc='www.browse-tutorials.net', path='/tutorial/get-self-base-url-appengine-urlparse', params='', query='', fragment='')
>>> base_url = url_array.netloc
>>> base_url
'www.browse-tutorials.net'
>>>
Programming Language: Text