This has never worked on Windows. Now it does. If it breaks on Unix now,
great, it's your turn to watch it fail for months <0.9 wink>.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 263c0d1..80356f8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
from test_support import verify
import urllib2
+import os
# A couple trivial tests
@@ -10,7 +11,12 @@
else:
verify(0)
-file_url = "file://%s" % urllib2.__file__
+# XXX Name hacking to get this to work on Windows.
+fname = os.path.abspath(urllib2.__file__).replace('\\', '/')
+if fname[1:2] == ":":
+ fname = fname[2:]
+file_url = "file://%s" % fname
f = urllib2.urlopen(file_url)
+
buf = f.read()
f.close()