strip string from url in Python -
    input: url = http://127.0.0.1:8000/data/number/   http://127.0.0.1:8000/data/  consistent each page number.   output: number   instead of slicing url url[-4:-1] , there better way it?          you can use combination of urlparse  , split .   import urlparse url = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/data/number/" path = urlparse.urlparse(url).path val = path.split("/")[2] print val   this prints:   number     the output of urlparse  above url   parseresult(scheme='http', netloc='127.0.0.1:8000', path='/data/number/', params='', query='', fragment='')   we utilizing path  portion of tuple. split on /  , take second index.