multi-protocol url-based IO -- pure python kioslave-like module?

[Paul Boddie]

On 27 Okt, 18:26, Rob McMullen <rob.mcmul... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wheel reinvention preemption question: is there an existing pure-
> python library with functionality similar to KDE's kio/kioslave
> implementation?  A multi-protocol, extensible library based on URLs
> that abstracts directory listing and file read/write?  I'm looking to
> use it in client code, not server, so it doesn't have to be
> asynchronous like kio; ideally it would be small and only depend on
> the standard python library.

Something like itools.vfs, perhaps?

http://www.ikaaro.org/itools
http://download.ikaaro.org/doc/itools/Chapter--VFS.html

Paul