Fuck. For PC support, this must be in the distribution.
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+"""Mac specific module for conversion between pathnames and URLs."""
+
+import string
+import urllib
+import os
+
+def url2pathname(pathname):
+ "Convert /-delimited pathname to mac pathname"
+ #
+ # XXXX The .. handling should be fixed...
+ #
+ tp = urllib.splittype(pathname)[0]
+ if tp and tp <> 'file':
+ raise RuntimeError, 'Cannot convert non-local URL to pathname'
+ components = string.split(pathname, '/')
+ # Remove . and embedded ..
+ i = 0
+ while i < len(components):
+ if components[i] == '.':
+ del components[i]
+ elif components[i] == '..' and i > 0 and \
+ components[i-1] not in ('', '..'):
+ del components[i-1:i+1]
+ i = i-1
+ elif components[i] == '' and i > 0 and components[i-1] <> '':
+ del components[i]
+ else:
+ i = i+1
+ if not components[0]:
+ # Absolute unix path, don't start with colon
+ return string.join(components[1:], ':')
+ else:
+ # relative unix path, start with colon. First replace
+ # leading .. by empty strings (giving ::file)
+ i = 0
+ while i < len(components) and components[i] == '..':
+ components[i] = ''
+ i = i + 1
+ return ':' + string.join(components, ':')
+
+def pathname2url(pathname):
+ "convert mac pathname to /-delimited pathname"
+ if '/' in pathname:
+ raise RuntimeError, "Cannot convert pathname containing slashes"
+ components = string.split(pathname, ':')
+ # Replace empty string ('::') by .. (will result in '/../' later)
+ for i in range(1, len(components)):
+ if components[i] == '':
+ components[i] = '..'
+ # Truncate names longer than 31 bytes
+ components = map(lambda x: x[:31], components)
+
+ if os.path.isabs(pathname):
+ return '/' + string.join(components, '/')
+ else:
+ return string.join(components, '/')
+
+def test():
+ for url in ["index.html",
+ "bar/index.html",
+ "/foo/bar/index.html",
+ "/foo/bar/",
+ "/"]:
+ print `url`, '->', `url2pathname(url)`
+ for path in ["drive:",
+ "drive:dir:",
+ "drive:dir:file",
+ "drive:file",
+ "file",
+ ":file",
+ ":dir:",
+ ":dir:file"]:
+ print `path`, '->', `pathname2url(path)`
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ test()