There is https://github.com/gruns/furl

Also https://github.com/aio-libs/yarl

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

This library is very pythonic.

Yes! That’s the one I like!

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.

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.

You might be interested in https://github.com/fsspec/universal_pathlib