[Python-Dev] Re: URL processing conformance and principles (was Re: urllib.urlopen...) (original) (raw)

John J Lee jjl at pobox.com
Sun Sep 19 16:03:53 CEST 2004

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Mike Brown wrote: [...]

Tightening up the conformance issues meant that we needed to help users produce valid URIs from filesystem paths and vice-versa. Once again, the core Python libs were of little use -- pathname2url and url2pathname are platform-dependent, and are so full of bugs^H^H^H^Hfeatures that I had to start from scratch and roll my own functions. I think what I've got at this point would make great additions to urllib2, but I'll save them for another day...

You must be worn out after those posts :-), but:

Would certainly be nice to have some more compliant, perhaps less forgiving functions for those tasks, so +1 for adding your OsPathToUri()
and UriToOsPath() somewhere in the stdlib. Maybe urllib2 is as good a place as any. I suppose somebody knowledgeable about both Macs and URIs must volunteer to do the Mac work first, though.

John

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