AdamN added the comment: Ok, you're right:

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urlsplit('cnn.com') SplitResult(scheme='', netloc='', path='cnn.com', query='', fragment='') urlsplit('//cnn.com') SplitResult(scheme='', netloc='cnn.com', path='', query='', fragment='')

Although I see that nowhere in the documentation. It seems to me that in the scenario most people are dealing with, where they are getting 'cnn.com' or 'http://cnn.com' but don't know which ahead of time, this will be useless. I don't see who would ever have '//cnn.com' without constructing that string specifically for urlsplit. I would propose that '/whatever' becomes the path because it starts with slash, otherwise, it becomes the netloc and everything after the first slash becomes the path. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue8818 _______________________________________