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"""Generic routines to convert platform-specific paths to URIs."""
import urllib
def abspath_to_uri(platform, path):
"""Converts a platform-specific absolute path to a file: URL."""
return 'file:' + _escape(_convert_path(platform, path))
def _escape(path):
"""Handle any characters in the path that should be escaped."""
# FIXME: web browsers don't appear to blindly quote every character
# when converting filenames to files. Instead of using urllib's default
# rules, we allow a small list of other characters through un-escaped.
# It's unclear if this is the best possible solution.
return urllib.quote(path, safe='/+:')
def _convert_path(platform, path):
"""Handles any os-specific path separators, mappings, etc."""
if platform.is_win():
return _winpath_to_uri(path)
return _unixypath_to_uri(path)
def _winpath_to_uri(path):
"""Converts a window absolute path to a file: URL."""
return '///' + path.replace('\\', '/')
def _unixypath_to_uri(path):
"""Converts a unix-style path to a file: URL."""
return '//' + path