AdamN added the comment: I would say right under: urlparse.urlparse(urlstring[, default_scheme[, allow_fragments]])¶ Put: urlstring is a pseudo-url. If the string has a scheme, it will be interpreted as a scheme, followed by a path, querystring and fragment. If it is prepended with a double-slash '//', it will be interpreted as a netloc followed by a path, querystring and fragment. Otherwise, it will be interpreted as a path followed by a querystring and fragment. I'm still confused about when anybody would use a relative path with a default scheme and no netloc but I'll leave that decision to you guys. Thanks, Adam ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue8818 _______________________________________