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Check if string is a URL or not
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| import urlparse | |
| def is_url(str_): | |
| """ | |
| Returns True if string is a URL. | |
| >>> is_url('not a url') | |
| False | |
| >>> is_url('http://www.example.com') | |
| True | |
| >>> is_url('s3://bucket/hello') | |
| True | |
| """ | |
| return bool(urlparse.urlparse(str_).scheme) |
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