On 10 August 2014 01:03, Greg Ewing greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
Paul Moore wrote:
FWIW, it looks like file:////myserver/share/WINDOWS/clock.avi is how you'd refer to \myserver\share\WINDOWS\clock.avi.
Where did you get that from? According to this it's wrong:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx
It should be
file://myserver/share/WINDOWS/clock.avi
from urllib.request import pathname2url pathname2url(r'\myserver\share\WINDOWS\clock.avi')
'////myserver/share/WINDOWS/clock.avi'
Bug in urllib?
Paul