[ python-Bugs-649961 ] nturl2path.url2pathname() mishandles ///

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Bugs item #649961, was opened at 2002-12-07 01:19
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Category: Windows
Group: Python 2.2.1
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Mike Brown (mike_j_brown)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: nturl2path.url2pathname() mishandles ///

Initial Comment:
On Windows, urllib.url2pathname('///path/to/file') returns 
r'\\path\to\file'. This path cannot be used in things like 
open() and os.access(). It should probably return 
r'\path\to\file'.

In addition, '//localhost/path/to/file' is a special case that 
should become '\path\to\file'.  I'll post this as a separate 
bug since it affects all file URIs.

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>Comment By: Mike Brown (mike_j_brown)
Date: 2004-12-27 00:12

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See #649974 -- url2pathname() and pathname2url() are
undocumented, platform-specific, and not really
general-purpose. It probably should not be assumed that they
are intended to produce values that are usable with open(),
os.access(), or anything other than where they are currently
used internally in urllib.

The solution as proposed for #649974 is probably just to
document the functions and discourage their general use. See
the suggested diffs attached to that report.

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