from django.utils.six.moves.urllib import parse as urlparse def replace_query_param(url, key, val): """ Given a URL and a key/val pair, set or replace an item in the query parameters of the URL, and return the new URL. """ (scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment) = urlparse.urlsplit(url) query_dict = urlparse.parse_qs(query, keep_blank_values=True) query_dict[key] = [val] query = urlparse.urlencode(sorted(list(query_dict.items())), doseq=True) return urlparse.urlunsplit((scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment)) def remove_query_param(url, key): """ Given a URL and a key/val pair, remove an item in the query parameters of the URL, and return the new URL. """ (scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment) = urlparse.urlsplit(url) query_dict = urlparse.parse_qs(query, keep_blank_values=True) query_dict.pop(key, None) query = urlparse.urlencode(sorted(list(query_dict.items())), doseq=True) return urlparse.urlunsplit((scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment))