Workaround for bug #644243 (which is actually an Apple bug, I think): URLs
of the form file:/path/to/file don't work whereas file:///path/to/file
works fine. We convert the former to the latter.
diff --git a/Lib/plat-mac/ic.py b/Lib/plat-mac/ic.py
index 91e14f3..33091ff 100644
--- a/Lib/plat-mac/ic.py
+++ b/Lib/plat-mac/ic.py
@@ -195,6 +195,10 @@
self.ic.ICSetPref(key, ICattr_no_change, value)
def launchurl(self, url, hint=""):
+ # Work around a bug in ICLaunchURL: file:/foo does
+ # not work but file:///foo does.
+ if url[:6] == 'file:/' and url[6] != '/':
+ url = 'file:///' + url[6:]
self.ic.ICLaunchURL(hint, url, 0, len(url))
def parseurl(self, data, start=None, end=None, hint=""):