avocado-framework/avocado

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# Copyright: Red Hat Inc. 2013-2014
# Author: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>

"""
URL related functions.

The strange name is to avoid accidental naming collisions in code.
"""

try:
    import urlparse
except ImportError:
    import urllib.parse as urlparse


def is_url(path):
    """
    Return `True` if path looks like an URL.

    :param path: path to check.
    :rtype: Boolean.
    """
    url_parts = urlparse.urlparse(path)
    return url_parts[0] in ("http", "https", "ftp", "git")