[Python-Dev] test_urllib2 fails on Win98SE

[Tim Peters]

test_urliib2 takes > 30 seconds, then fails:

C:\Code\python\dist\src\PCbuild>python ../lib/test/test_urllib2.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "../lib/test/test_urllib2.py", line 15, in ?
    f = urllib2.urlopen(file_url)
  File "c:\code\python\dist\src\lib\urllib2.py", line 135, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "c:\code\python\dist\src\lib\urllib2.py", line 319, in open
    '_open', req)
  File "c:\code\python\dist\src\lib\urllib2.py", line 298, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "c:\code\python\dist\src\lib\urllib2.py", line 904, in file_open
    return self.open_local_file(req)
  File "c:\code\python\dist\src\lib\urllib2.py", line 923, in open_local_file
    if not host or \
socket.error: host not found

The URL it's passing is

file://c:\code\python\dist\src\lib\urllib2.pyc

If I change test_urllib2's

    file_url = "file://%s" % urllib2.__file__

to (adding another slash)

    file_url = "file:///%s" % urllib2.__file__

then it fails like this instead, but very quickly:

C:\Code\python\dist\src\PCbuild>python ../lib/test/test_urllib2.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "../lib/test/test_urllib2.py", line 15, in ?
    f = urllib2.urlopen(file_url)
  File "c:\code\python\dist\src\lib\urllib2.py", line 135, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "c:\code\python\dist\src\lib\urllib2.py", line 319, in open
    '_open', req)
  File "c:\code\python\dist\src\lib\urllib2.py", line 298, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "c:\code\python\dist\src\lib\urllib2.py", line 904, in file_open
    return self.open_local_file(req)
  File "c:\code\python\dist\src\lib\urllib2.py", line 925, in open_local_file
    return addinfourl(open(url2pathname(file), 'rb'),
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
     '\\c:\\code\\python\\dist\\src\\lib\\urllib2.pyc'

Here's what I know about URLs: .

Here's what I know about file URLs: .

Here's what I know about file URLs on Windows: .

If I type the original

    file://c:\code\python\dist\src\lib\urllib2.pyc

into IE's address bar, it actually *executes* urllib2.