urljoin corrupts the data
from urllib.parse import urljoin
base = "https://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1"
tail = "/employees"
urljoin(base, tail)
returns
'https://dummy.restapiexample.com/employees'
eating "/api/v1".
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That's not corrupted, that's correct according to the documentation. – Peter Wood Mar 14 '23 at 22:34
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@PeterWood np, so, whats the function that works normally? – Dims Mar 14 '23 at 22:36
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`tail = "employees"` – Peter Wood Mar 14 '23 at 22:36
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Perhaps `str.join`? – mkrieger1 Mar 14 '23 at 22:38
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@mkrieger1 This won't drop leading/trailing slashes as needed. – Dims Mar 14 '23 at 22:40
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@PeterWood this fixes data, not function – Dims Mar 14 '23 at 22:41
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base and tail are strings. ''.join([base, tail]) is one such way to join these strings:
>>> base = "https://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1"
>>> tail = "/employees"
>>> ''.join([base, tail])
'https://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1/employees'
Strings have a join method, which takes in a list of strings and returns a concatenated string from said list, with copies of the calling string separating the substrings which are copies of the strings in the list -- so, for example, '/'.join(['a','s','d','f']) returns 'a/s/d/f'. If '' calls this method, it simply returns the list concatenated into one string.
