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I use yarl as my default for this as well, it's been great to work with.

Yes! That’s the one I like!

This library is very pythonic.

That used to be werkzeug.urls, kinda (it certainly had a more convenient API than urllib.parse), but it was killed in Werkzeug 3.

I remember and miss that. But I’m not going to install werkzeug just for the url parsing.

Is it that inconvenient?

It’s heavy. It’s a freaking server.

It’s a bunch of WSGI utilities. The server it provides is a thin layer over the stdlib’s HTTPServer.