Getting the final redirect URL when using urllib2.urlopen

Question

I'm using the urllib2.urlopen method to open an url and fetch the markup of a webpage. Some of these sites redirect me using the 301/302 redirects. I would like the know the final URL that I've been redirected to. How can i get this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Call geturl() on the file object returned see the python docs

Answer 2

The return value of urllib2.urlopen has a geturl() method which should return the actual (i.e. last redirect) url.