PEP on path module for standard library

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Ron Adam wrote:
> Bengt Richter wrote:
>
> > <indulging what="my penchant for seeking the general behind the specific ;-)"


There is a thing called "Asynchronous pluggable protocol". It is
Microsoft's technology (don't flame me now):

"""
Asynchronous pluggable protocols enable developers to create pluggable
protocol handlers, MIME filters, and namespace handlers that work with
Microsoft® Internet Explorer...

Applications can use pluggable protocol handlers to handle a custom
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) protocol scheme or filter data for a
designated MIME type.
"""

In other words you can develop you own plugin which would allow
Internet Explorer to open URLs like "rar://c/my/doc/book.rar". (I was
going to write plugin for .rar in order to enable offsite browsing of
downloaded portions of web sites, all from an archive file).


You could give it a look. If only to see that it is Mycrosofthonic:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/pluggable/overview/aplugprot_overviews_entry.asp.


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