On 11 September 2011 22:59, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also, I'm not sure if urllib.open() works with file:// urls, but I'd > verify it's a http or https url . > > It even works without. For urllib2, you do need to use file:// urls.
valhallasw@dorthonion:~$ python Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import urllib, urllib2 >>> urllib.urlopen('/etc/passwd').readlines() ['root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n', (...) ,'usbmux:x:109:46:usbmux daemon,,,:/home/usbmux:/bin/false\n'] >>> urllib2.urlopen('file:///etc/passwd').readlines() ['root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n', (...) Of course, it all boils back to the old motto 'never trust user input' - and be sure standard libraries are not more general than you think... (and this is something that might have bitten more of us, including me :-)) Best, Merlijn
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