On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:42 AM, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: > I have an outstanding request for ReportLab to allow images to be opened > using the data: scheme. That used to be supported in python 2.7 using > urllib, but in python 3.3 urllib2 --> urllib and at least the default > urlopener doesn't support data: > > Is there a way to use the residual legacy of the old urllib code that's now > in urllib.URLopener to open unusual schemes? I know it can be used directly > eg > > urllib.request.URLopener().open('data:.........') > > but that seems to leave the splitting & testing logic up to me when it > logically belongs in some central place ie urllib.request.urlopen.
Seems to be fixed in Python 3.4: Python 3.4.0 (v3.4.0:04f714765c13, Mar 16 2014, 19:24:06) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (In tel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import urllib.request >>> url = 'data:text/plain;charset=UTF-8,Hello%20World' >>> urllib.request.urlopen(url).read() b'Hello World' -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list