I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but there absolutely is prior art here. Check out Yarl (urllib.parse wrapper with the nicer interface) and Hyperlink (gre

I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but there absolutely is prior art here. Check out Yarl (urllib.parse wrapper with the nicer interface) and Hyperlink (green field, immutable OO style, focus on correctness). Both on PyPI for many years now.