Public Suffix List module for Python
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This module allows you to get the public suffix of a domain name using the
Public Suffix List from http://publicsuffix.org

A public suffix is one under which Internet users can directly register
names. Some examples of public suffixes are .com, .co.uk and pvt.k12.wy.us.
Accurately knowing the public suffix of a domain is useful when handling
web browser cookies, highlighting the most important part of a domain name
in a user interface or sorting URLs by web site.


Module content
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The module exports a class that parses the Public Suffix List and allows
queries for individual domain names::

    >>> psl = PublicSuffixList()
    >>> psl.get_public_suffix("www.example.com")
    'example.com'

Please note that the ``host`` part of an URL can contain strings that are
not plain DNS domain names (IP addresses, Punycode-encoded names, name in
combination with a port number or an username, etc.). It is up to the
caller to ensure only domain names are passed to the get_public_suffix()
method.


Source
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You can get a local copy of the development repository with::

    git clone http://www.tablix.org/~avian/git/publicsuffix.git

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