Resolving a relative url path to it's absolute path

Question

Is there a library in python that works like this?

>>> resolvePath("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "anotherpage.html")
'http://www.asite.com/folder/anotherpage.html'
>>> resolvePath("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "folder2/anotherpage.html")
'http://www.asite.com/folder/folder2/anotherpage.html'
>>> resolvePath("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "/folder3/anotherpage.html")
'http://www.asite.com/folder3/anotherpage.html'
>>> resolvePath("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "../finalpage.html")
'http://www.asite.com/finalpage.html'

Answer 1

Yes, there is: urlparse.

>>> from urlparse import urljoin
>>> urljoin("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "anotherpage.html")
'http://www.asite.com/folder/anotherpage.html'
>>> urljoin("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "folder2/anotherpage.html")
'http://www.asite.com/folder/folder2/anotherpage.html'
>>> urljoin("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "/folder3/anotherpage.html")
'http://www.asite.com/folder3/anotherpage.html'
>>> urljoin("http://www.asite.com/folder/currentpage.html", "../finalpage.html")
'http://www.asite.com/finalpage.html'