newbie urlopen() question

[c825934 at vitgcab4.telstra.com.au]

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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