Changing hostname in a url

I am trying to use python to change the hostname in a url, and have been playing around with the urlparse module for a while now without finding a satisfactory solution. As an example, consider the url: https://www.google.dk:80/barbaz I would like to replace "www.google.dk" with e.g. "www.foo.dk", so I get the following url: https://www.foo.dk:80/barbaz. So the part I want to replace is what urlpa

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“Using a private method _replace doesn't feel right. – Flimm Feb 12 '16 at 12:22 10 upvote flag _replace is a part of namedtuple public API. It just starts with the underscore to avoid conflicts with the field names. – Nigel Tufnel Feb 12 '16 at 15:11 ”