10.1 Usage

The main function provided by itools.uri is get_reference, which expects a byte string and returns a URI Reference object:

  get_reference(reference)

Here there are a few examples:

    >>> from itools.uri import get_reference
    >>> r1 = get_reference('http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-intro')
    >>> r2 = get_reference('mailto:jdavid@itaapy.com')
    >>> r3 = get_reference('http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt')
    >>> r4 = get_reference('http://sf.net/cvs/?group_id=5470')
    >>> r5 = get_reference('news:comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix')