urllib.urlopen("file://...") fails

[Seth Delackner]

With python 2.2 on windows, with the file t:\tmp\package.html existing,

>>> import urllib
>>> u = urllib.urlopen("file://t:/tmp/package.html")

Fails with the error below, but "file:t:/tmp/package.html" works. Is
that even a valid url?

>>> u = urllib.urlopen("file:///t:/tmp/package.html")
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<pyshell#40>", line 1, in ?
        u = urllib.urlopen("file:///t:/tmp/package.html")
      File "d:\python\lib\urllib.py", line 73, in urlopen
        return _urlopener.open(url)
      File "d:\python\lib\urllib.py", line 178, in open
        return getattr(self, name)(url)
      File "d:\python\lib\urllib.py", line 405, in open_file
        return self.open_local_file(url)
      File "d:\python\lib\urllib.py", line 412, in open_local_file
        stats = os.stat(localname)
    OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\\t:\\tmp\\package.html'

>>> u = urllib.urlopen("file:t:/tmp/package.html")
>>> u.read()
    contents of the html file spew forth.

Just for fun I tried localhost instead of just "///":

>>> u = urllib.urlopen("file://localhost/t:/tmp/package.html")
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<pyshell#41>", line 1, in ?
        u = urllib.urlopen("file://localhost/t:/tmp/package.html")
      File "d:\python\lib\urllib.py", line 73, in urlopen
        return _urlopener.open(url)
      File "d:\python\lib\urllib.py", line 178, in open
        return getattr(self, name)(url)
      File "d:\python\lib\urllib.py", line 403, in open_file
        return self.open_ftp(url)
      File "d:\python\lib\urllib.py", line 470, in open_ftp
        self.ftpcache[key] = \
      File "d:\python\lib\urllib.py", line 702, in __init__
        self.init()
      File "d:\python\lib\urllib.py", line 708, in init
        self.ftp.connect(self.host, self.port)
      File "D:\PYTHON\lib\ftplib.py", line 131, in connect
        raise socket.error, msg
    IOError: [Errno ftp error] (10061, 'Connection refused')