def build_url(base, additional_params=None):
    url = urlparse.urlparse(base)
    query_params = {}
    query_params.update(urlparse.parse_qsl(url.query, True))
    if additional_params is not None:
        query_params.update(additional_params)
        for k, v in additional_params.iteritems():
            if v is None:
                query_params.pop(k)

    return urlparse.urlunparse((url.scheme,
                                url.netloc,
                                url.path,
                                url.params,
                                urllib.urlencode(query_params),
                                url.fragment))
Construct a URL based off of base containing all parameters in
dataset/ETHPy150Open StartTheShift/pyoauth2/pyoauth2/utils.py/build_url