retrieving files from the same host and directory, you had to close
the previous instance before opening a new one; and retrieving a
non-existent file would return an empty file. (The latter fix relies
on maybe an undocumented property of NLST -- NLST of a file returns
just that file, while NLST of a non-existent file returns nothing. A
side effect, unfortunately, seems to be that now ftp-retrieving an
*empty* directory may fail. Ah well.)
Sjoerd: add separate administration of temporary files created y
URLopener.retrieve() so cleanup can properly remove them. The old
code removed everything in tempcache which was a bad idea if the user
had passed a non-temp file into it. (I added a line to delete the
tempcache in cleanup() -- it still seems to make sense.)
Jack: in basejoin(), interpret relative paths starting in "../". This
is necessary if the server uses symbolic links.
that multiple retrievals using the same connection will work.
This leaves open the more general problem that after
f = urlopen("ftp://...")
f must be closed before another retrieval from the same host should be
attempted.
- basejoin('some/url', '#name') would strip the last component of
some/url and resturn some/#name.
- basejoin('file.html', 'relative/path') would return something like
file:/relative/path, making a relative path into an absolute one.
These bugs are fixed by some drastic changes. No scheme is added when
none is present (i.e. it works as replacement for posix.joinpath).
If a scheme is present in the second argument, it is returned
unprocessed. No hostname are added in this case. If no scheme is
present, the scheme of the first argument, if present, is used.
The algorithm is commented profusely.
Also fixed a typo in a comment.
urllib.py: '+' is not always safe (even though the RFC says so :-( )
whrandom.py: throw away top bits of time to avoid overflow on Mac
(where times can be negative)
* Lib/macpath.py: don't return trailing colon for dirname()
(XXX won't do for volume names -- but otherwise glob(':*:*.py')
loops forever)
* Lib/traceback.py: print SyntaxError correctly
* Lib/stat.py: moved to posixstat.py; added macstat.py which has
the constants for the Mac; and created new stat.py which includes
the right one
* Lib/urllib.py: fix caching bug (by disabling the cache)
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake
Jack Jansen
Sjoerd Mullender