On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Dane Springmeyer wrote:
>
> On Oct 4, 2010, at 11:26 AM, jeff2 wrote:
>
>> File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 1134, in unknown_open
>> raise URLError('unknown url type: %s' % type)
>> urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error unknown url type: c>
>
> urllib.urlopen does not work on Windows with absolute paths unless the path
> is prefixed with 'file:path/to/something.png'
>
> I fixed this problem in Cascadenik a while back but I assume this got lost in
> recent refactoring.
>
> The fix was part of:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/mapnik-utils/source/detail?r=900
>
> and was basically:
>
> + if os.path.exists(src): # local file
> + # using 'file:' enables support on win32
> + # for opening local files with urllib.urlopen
> + # Note: this must only be used with abs paths to local files
> + # otherwise urllib will think they are absolute,
> + # therefore in the future it will likely be
> + # wiser to just open local files with open()
> + if os.path.isabs(src) and sys.platform == "win32":
> + src = 'file:%s' % src
>
> So, basically Jeff, my guess is that Cascadenik HEAD is currently not
> compatible with windows, but it should be a fairly easy fix.
Cascadenik HEAD is a bit busted at the moment, sorry. We merged Robert's
changes in, realized that they left us with non-working datasources, and
quickly threw in the "classic" branch on Github to temporarily fix it. I've
been working with Dane, Robert, and Nino on a new Cascadenik release so I'm
sorry that things are a bit out of sorts at the moment.
Jeff, where did you get your copy of Cascadenik from?
-mike.
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