Yet another patch by Sjoerd Mullender:
Don't convert URLs to URLs using pathname2url.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index a484736..c3da7bf 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -326,12 +326,12 @@
host, file = splithost(url)
if not host:
return addinfourl(open(url2pathname(file), 'rb'),
- headers, 'file:'+pathname2url(file))
+ headers, 'file:'+file)
host, port = splitport(host)
if not port \
and socket.gethostbyname(host) in (localhost(), thishost()):
return addinfourl(open(url2pathname(file), 'rb'),
- headers, 'file:'+pathname2url(file))
+ headers, 'file:'+file)
raise IOError, ('local file error', 'not on local host')
# Use FTP protocol