I know it's not the point the author is trying to make, but I couldn't help get the feeling this example isn't good enough to carry the point. from stdlib:

I know it's not the point the author is trying to make, but I couldn't help get the feeling this example isn't good enough to carry the point. from stdlib: from urllib.parse import urlparse, parse_qsl url = 'https://www.example.com/some_pathsome_key=some_value&foo=bar' parsed_url = urlparse(url) values = [v for _, v in parse_qsl(parsed_url.query)] print(values) which I guess you could oneliner back to this.. [v for _, v in parse_qsl(urlparse(url).query]