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Sun Sep 19 16:03:53 CEST 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-September/049023.html

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Mike Brown wrote:
[...]
> Tightening up the conformance issues meant that we needed to help users 
> produce valid URIs from filesystem paths and vice-versa. Once again, the core 
> Python libs were of little use -- pathname2url and url2pathname are 
> platform-dependent, and are so full of bugs^H^H^H^Hfeatures that I had to 
> start from scratch and roll my own functions. I think what I've got at this 
> point would make great additions to urllib2, but I'll save them for another 
> day...

You must be worn out after those posts :-), but:

Would certainly be nice to have some more compliant, perhaps less
forgiving functions for those tasks, so +1 for adding your OsPathToUri()  
and UriToOsPath() somewhere in the stdlib.  Maybe urllib2 is as good a
place as any.  I suppose somebody knowledgeable about both Macs and URIs
must volunteer to do the Mac work first, though.

John

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