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

[Fernando Pérez]

Seth Delackner wrote:

> 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")
                                ^

One / too many? You're directing it to \t:\.... which it obviously can't find.

I don't run windows so I can't test so I may be wrong. It just looks like that 
is your problem.

Cheers,

f.