This is a Python library of web-related functions, such as:

• remove comments, or tags from HTML snippets
• extract base url from HTML snippets
• translate entites on HTML strings
• convert raw HTTP headers to dicts and vice-versa
• construct HTTP auth header
• converting HTML pages to unicode
• sanitize urls (like browsers do)
• extract arguments from urls

Python 2.7 or Python 3.3+

pip install w3lib

See http://w3lib.readthedocs.org/

The w3lib library is licensed under the BSD license.