On 10 August 2014 01:03, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Paul Moore wrote: >> >> FWIW, it looks like file:////myserver/share/WINDOWS/clock.avi is how >> you'd refer to \\myserver\share\WINDOWS\clock.avi. > > > Where did you get that from? According to this it's wrong: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx > > It should be > > file://myserver/share/WINDOWS/clock.avi
>>> from urllib.request import pathname2url >>> pathname2url(r'\\myserver\share\WINDOWS\clock.avi') '////myserver/share/WINDOWS/clock.avi' Bug in urllib? Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig