[New-bugs-announce] [issue6631] urlparse.urlunsplit() can't handle relative files (for urllib*.open()

[albert Mietus]

New submission from albert Mietus <albert at mietus.nl>:

The functions urlparse.url{,un}split() and urllib{,2}.open() do not work 
together for relative, local files, due a bug in urlunsplit.

Given a file f='./rel/path/to/file.html' it can be open directly by 
urllib.open(f), but not in urllib2! as the later needs a scheme.
We can create a sound url with spilt/unspilt and a default scheme:
f2=urlparse.urlunsplit(urlparse.urlsplit(f,'file')); which works most 
cases, HOWEVER a bogus netloc is added for relative filepaths.

If have isolated this  "buggy" function, added some local testcode and 
made patch/workaround in my file 'unsplit.py' Which is included. Hope 
this will contribute to a real patch.


--Groetjes, Albert

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components: Library (Lib)
files: unsplit.py
messages: 91222
nosy: albert
severity: normal
status: open
title: urlparse.urlunsplit() can't handle relative files (for urllib*.open()
type: performance
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14637/unsplit.py

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