from mercurial.hg import parseurl def testparse(url, branch=[]): print '%s, branches: %r' % parseurl(url, branch) testparse('http://example.com/no/anchor') testparse('http://example.com/an/anchor#foo') testparse('http://example.com/no/anchor/branches', branch=['foo']) testparse('http://example.com/an/anchor/branches#bar', branch=['foo']) testparse('http://example.com/an/anchor/branches-None#foo', branch=None)