I agree this is useful.

This line should also be updated to be the tuple "file", "local" to make sure we normalise URLs correctly.

@martindurant: updated as suggested (e8c7253)

@martindurant: updated failing tests

_strip_protocol should be updated too:

_strip_protocol should be updated too:

filesystem_spec/fsspec/implementations/local.py

Lines 211 to 218 in 89626e8

	@classmethod
	def _strip_protocol(cls, path):
	path = stringify_path(path)
	if path.startswith("file://"):
	path = path[7:]
	elif path.startswith("file:"):
	path = path[5:]
	return make_path_posix(path).rstrip("/") or cls.root_marker

Thanks. Fixed it.

@martindurant seems like I had the wrong syntax for the tuple assertion -- this was also fixed. Hopefully we're good to go now.