Python Adventures

Question

We have a page that redirects to another page. How to figure out where the redirection points to?

Answer

import urllib

s = "https://pythonadventures.wordpress.com?random"    # returns a random post
page = urllib.urlopen(s)
print page.geturl()    # e.g. http:// pythonadventures.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/python-challenge-1/

Credits

I found it in this thread.

Update (20121202)

With requests:

>>> import requests
>>> r = requests.get('https://pythonadventures.wordpress.com?random')
>>> r.url
u'https://pythonadventures.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/create-import-module/'