On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:01:07 am Steve Holden wrote: > My own inclination would be to regard the current treatment of file: > as a bug (albeit one not worth fixing on 2.x). ... > Presumably a > hostname in such a URI would require that some host-specific protocol > be used (but this should be an access protocol like SMB or NFS, not a > transfer protocol like FTP).
KDE uses SMB for non-local hostnames in file URIs. > It seems pretty clear that randomly interpreting particular host > names to imply a specific remote-access protocol like FTP is bogus. Agreed. The right behaviour is to raise an exception and let the caller deal with it, or provide a means to register an alternative. -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
