[Python] Convert relative URL to fully qualified URL using Python

I'm looking for a way to fully qualify a URL using Python. I have my current page URL, such as:

http://www.foo.com/Stuff/Mike/Doc.html

and I have my href, such as:

href="../Bob/Doc.html"

What I need to build is:

http://www.foo.com/Stuff/Bob/Doc.html

Does Python have any libraries that can parse paths like this? I looked around the docs for urllib and urllib2, but couldn't find anything like that. Thanks!

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