newbie urlopen() question

[Olivier Dagenais]

Well, your URL is malformed.  For local files, it usually has to be prefixed
with "file://", so try

url = "file://a:/1.htm"

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Olivier A. Dagenais - Carleton University - Computer Science III


<c825934 at vitgcab4.telstra.com.au> wrote in message
news:8l2lts$fln$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> I have a simple file on my A drive (in the root) called 1.htm.
>
> Why doesn't the following code succeed in opening the file? (It works
> fine if I assign a valid http address to url. But when I assign the
> address below the IOError occurs):
>
> import urllib
> url="a:1.htm"
>
> try:
>     f = urllib.urlopen(url)
>     print f.read()
> except IOError:
>     print "Could not open " + url
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Peter Dann
> Melbourne, Australia
>
>
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