Sort-friendly URI Reordering Transform (SURT) python package.

Usage:

>>> from surt import surt
>>> surt("http://archive.org/goo/?a=2&b&a=1")
'org,archive)/goo?a=1&a=2&b'

Installation:

pip install surt

Or install the dev version from git:

pip install git+git://github.com/rajbot/surt#egg=surt

More information about SURTs: http://crawler.archive.org/articles/user_manual/glossary.html#surt

This is mostly a python port of the archive-commons org.archive.url package. The original java version of the org.archive.url package is here: http://archive-access.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/archive-access/trunk/archive-access/projects/archive-commons/src/main/java/org/archive/url/

This module depends on the tldextract module to query the Public Suffix List. tldextract can be installed via pip