def pathname2url(p): r"""Convert a DOS path name to a file url. C:\foo\bar\spam.foo becomes ///C|/foo/bar/spam.foo """ if not ':' in p: # No drive specifier, just convert slashes and quote the name if p[:2] == '\\\\': # path is something like \\host\path\on\remote\host # convert this to ////host/path/on/remote/host # (notice doubling of slashes at the start of the path) p = '\\\\' + p components = p.split('\\') return urllib.quote('/'.join(components)) comp = p.split(':') if len(comp) != 2 or len(comp[0]) > 1: error = 'Bad path: ' + p raise IOError, error drive = urllib.quote(comp[0].upper()) components = comp[1].split('\\') path = '///' + drive + '|' for comp in components: if comp: path = path + '/' + urllib.quote(comp) return path
def _pncomp2url(component): component = urllib.quote(component[:31], safe='') # We want to quote slashes return component