Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil <at> gmail.com> writes: > > The actual (and Valid) file:// url in your case is 'file:///tmp/hello.txt' > And this was fine and consistent. > > The extra '/' is making it in invalid url in urllib2, I think that be > tracked as bug at least to show a consistent behaviour. The local > file open methods of urllib2 and urllib are different. >
Yes, it seems to be a bug in urllib which permits an invalid URL to pass. I came across it by accident, I normally use urls like file://localhost/tmp/hello.txt so I don't trip over the /// hurdles :-) I'll raise an issue on the tracker. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
