pygnomevfs get_local_path_from_uri replacement
Hi folks, I realize this is slightly off topic and maybe belongs to a gnome email list but it's nevertheless python: I use an old python program that was written for gnome 2 and gtk 2 and uses the function get_local_path_from_uri. More specifically it uses gnomevfs.get_local_path_from_uri. Now with gnome 3 the module pygnomevfs does not exist anymore and after checking the source for pygnomevfs it turns out it's written in C using all the header files and stuff from gnome 2. So I can't just lift it from the source. I was hoping it's pure python in which case I could have simply lifted it. Does anyone know what a good replacement for get_local_path_from_uri is? Is there a gtk/gnome/etc related python package that contains it which would work with gnome 3? Or a totally gnome-independent python implementation? Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: pygnomevfs get_local_path_from_uri replacement
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 09:57:11AM +0100, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: Hi folks, I realize this is slightly off topic and maybe belongs to a gnome email list but it's nevertheless python: I use an old python program that was written for gnome 2 and gtk 2 and uses the function get_local_path_from_uri. More specifically it uses gnomevfs.get_local_path_from_uri. Now with gnome 3 the module pygnomevfs does not exist anymore and after checking the source for pygnomevfs it turns out it's written in C using all the header files and stuff from gnome 2. So I can't just lift it from the source. I was hoping it's pure python in which case I could have simply lifted it. Does anyone know what a good replacement for get_local_path_from_uri is? Is there a gtk/gnome/etc related python package that contains it which would work with gnome 3? Or a totally gnome-independent python implementation? Cheers, Daniel I'd reckon you'd get better info by asking the people at GTK or GNOME. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: pygnomevfs get_local_path_from_uri replacement
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi folks, I realize this is slightly off topic and maybe belongs to a gnome email list but it's nevertheless python: I use an old python program that was written for gnome 2 and gtk 2 and uses the function get_local_path_from_uri. More specifically it uses gnomevfs.get_local_path_from_uri. Now with gnome 3 the module pygnomevfs does not exist anymore and after checking the source for pygnomevfs it turns out it's written in C using all the header files and stuff from gnome 2. So I can't just lift it from the source. I was hoping it's pure python in which case I could have simply lifted it. Does anyone know what a good replacement for get_local_path_from_uri is? Is there a gtk/gnome/etc related python package that contains it which would work with gnome 3? Or a totally gnome-independent python implementation? The commit https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2009-May/msg05733.html suggests that get_local_path_from_uri() might have been defined as (taking slight liberties): gnome_vfs_unescape_string(remove_host_from_uri(uri)) Assuming these functions do the obvious things implied by their names (you can probably chase down the Gnome VFS source or docs to check; I don't care enough to bother), given a general URI protocol://host/path, it presumably returns either protocol:///path (`protocol:` likely being file: in this case) or /path, in either case with `path` having been un-percent-escaped. The latter transform can be done using http://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html#urllib.unquote Alternately, you might call the Gnome VFS C API directly via http://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html Merry Solstice, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: pygnomevfs get_local_path_from_uri replacement
Hi folks, I realize this is slightly off topic and maybe belongs to a gnome email list but it's nevertheless python: I use an old python program that was written for gnome 2 and gtk 2 and uses the function get_local_path_from_uri. More specifically it uses gnomevfs.get_local_path_from_uri. Now with gnome 3 the module pygnomevfs does not exist anymore and after checking the source for pygnomevfs it turns out it's written in C using all the header files and stuff from gnome 2. So I can't just lift it from the source. I was hoping it's pure python in which case I could have simply lifted it. Does anyone know what a good replacement for get_local_path_from_uri is? Is there a gtk/gnome/etc related python package that contains it which would work with gnome 3? Or a totally gnome-independent python implementation? The commit https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2009-May/msg05733.html suggests that get_local_path_from_uri() might have been defined as (taking slight liberties): gnome_vfs_unescape_string(remove_host_from_uri(uri)) Assuming these functions do the obvious things implied by their names (you can probably chase down the Gnome VFS source or docs to check; I don't care enough to bother), given a general URI protocol://host/path, it presumably returns either protocol:///path (`protocol:` likely being file: in this case) or /path, in either case with `path` having been un-percent-escaped. The latter transform can be done using http://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html#urllib.unquote Alternately, you might call the Gnome VFS C API directly via http://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html Thanks, ctypes is actually a great idea, I should have thought about that. In the meantime I use the simple function def get_local_path_from_uri( uri ): return uri.split( '//' )[1] and it seems to work. In the program the function is always called in a try: except: block so if anything is not okay it will get caught, I don't have to catch exceptions inside the function. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
