getting absolute path ?

[Stef Mientki]

thanks Mike,

with your links I managed to write some code that seems to work well.
Still I stay surprised that these kind of functions are not available ;-)
cheers,
Stef

kyosohma at gmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 9, 3:22 pm, Stef Mientki <stef.mien... at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to convert the links in html pages to absolute links,
>> these pages can either be webpages or files on local harddisk (winXP).
>> Now I've struggling for a while, and this code works a lilttle:
>>
>>       i = line.find ( 'href=' )
>>           if i < 0 :
>>               i = line.find ( ' src=' )
>>           if i >= 0 :
>>             ii = line.find ( '"', i+6 )
>>             file = line [ i+6 : ii ]
>>             #print urlparse.urljoin ( p, file )
>>             if file.find ( 'http:' ) < 0 :
>>                 abspath = os.path.normpath ( os.path.join ( p, file ) )
>>                 line = line.replace ( file, abspath )
>>             print line
>>
>> but it only covers files on local disk and just 1 link per line,
>> so I guess it's a lot of trouble to catch all cases.
>> Isn't there a convenient function for (OS independent preferable) ?
>> Googled for it, but can't find it.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Stef Mientki
>>     
>
> I googled a bit too. The Perl forums talk about using a regular
> expression. You can probably take that and translate it into the
> Python equivalent:
>
> http://forums.devshed.com/perl-programming-6/how-to-parse-relatives-links-to-absolute-links-8173.html
>
> I also found this, which appears to be an old c.l.py thread:
>
> http://www.dbforums.com/archive/index.php/t-320359.html
>
> You might have more luck if you google for "relative to absolute
> links". I would also take a look at how django or cherrypy creates
> their URLs.
>
> Mike
>