url parsing on in-house schemes

[Alex Martelli]

"rw2" <richw at objenv.com> wrote in message
news:20010920.153720.213975407.3413 at objenv.com...
> I followed the general convention of scheme://host/path in creation
> of new schemes, but neither urlparse nor urllib want to parse our new
> creations.  This is understandable as the RFC says that everything after
> the colon is scheme dependent, but I'd like to know if there's a way to
> coax either of them to use scheme://host/path as a default instead of
> throwing an exception (urllib) or putting the host in the path (urlparse)

Sure:
    import urlparse
    urlparse.uses_netloc.insert('scheme')
should do exactly what you're asking.


Alex