On Thursday 05 January 2017 14:22, Rustom Mody wrote: > This thread does lead to the question: > Is the Url type in python less first-class than it could be? >> In scheme I could point to something like this > https://docs.racket-lang.org/net/url.html Those docs say: "To access the text of a document from the web, first obtain its URL AS A STRING..." [emphasis added] which means that URLs are not a first-class data type in Racket at all. URLs in Racket are just strings, exactly the same as in Python. There is a url struct: https://docs.racket-lang.org/net/url.html#%28def._%28%28lib._net%2Furl- structs..rkt%29._url%29%29 but there no first-class syntactic support for them, as ints and lists have in Python: 123 # rather than int("123") [1, 2] # rather than list(1, 2) > Is there something equivalent in python? Just like Racket, URLs in Python are not first-class. They start as a string, and then you parse them into a tuple: https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.parse.html https://docs.python.org/2/library/urlparse.html -- Steven "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." - Jon Ronson