Parse url for querystrings

parse_querystrings.py

"""
`furl` is really nice, but if it's only used for easily grabbing querstrings, you can use the `urlib.parse` module instead.
"""

url = "http://www.test.com?some_qs_here=asdf"

# Instead of this...
from furl import furl

parsed_url = furl(url)
some_qs_here = parsed_url.args["some_qs_here"]


# Just do this...
from urllib import parse

querystrings = dict(parse.parse_qs(parse.urlsplit(url).query))
some_qs_here = querystrings["some_qs_here"]