["python","django","parsing","url"]
Retrieving parameters from a URL

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 some_key . /some_path?some_key=some_value' 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('some_key') but it is not returning the value some_value as I had hoped.
This is not specific to Django, but for Python in general. For a Django specific answer, see this one from @jball037 Python 2: import urlparse url = 'https://www.example.com/some_path?some_key=some_value' parsed = urlparse.urlparse(url) captured_value = urlparse.parse_qs(parsed.query)['some_key'][0] print captured_value Python 3: from urllib.parse import urlparse from urllib.parse import parse_qs url = 'https://www.example.com/some_path?some_key=some_value' parsed_url = urlparse(url) captured_value = parse_qs(parsed_url.query)['some_key'][0] print(captured_value) parse_qs returns a list. The [0] gets the first item of the list so the output of each script is some_value Here's the 'parse_qs' documentation for Python 3