[python] How to validate a url in Python? (Malformed or not)

I landed on this page trying to figure out a sane way to validate strings as "valid" urls. I share here my solution using python3. No extra libraries required.

See https://docs.python.org/2/library/urlparse.html if you are using python2.

See https://docs.python.org/3.0/library/urllib.parse.html if you are using python3 as I am.

import urllib
from pprint import pprint

invalid_url = 'dkakasdkjdjakdjadjfalskdjfalk'
valid_url = 'https://stackoverflow.com'
tokens = [urllib.parse.urlparse(url) for url in (invalid_url, valid_url)]

for token in tokens:
    pprint(token)

min_attributes = ('scheme', 'netloc')  # add attrs to your liking
for token in tokens:
    if not all([getattr(token, attr) for attr in min_attributes]):
        error = "'{url}' string has no scheme or netloc.".format(url=token.geturl())
        print(error)
    else:
        print("'{url}' is probably a valid url.".format(url=token.geturl()))

ParseResult(scheme='', netloc='', path='dkakasdkjdjakdjadjfalskdjfalk', params='', query='', fragment='')

ParseResult(scheme='https', netloc='stackoverflow.com', path='', params='', query='', fragment='')

'dkakasdkjdjakdjadjfalskdjfalk' string has no scheme or netloc.

'https://stackoverflow.com' is probably a valid url.

Here is a more concise function:

from urllib.parse import urlparse

min_attributes = ('scheme', 'netloc')


def is_valid(url, qualifying=min_attributes):
    tokens = urlparse(url)
    return all([getattr(tokens, qualifying_attr)
                for qualifying_attr in qualifying])