urllib.request.url2pathname() mishandles colons in URLs on Windows #126367
Description
Bug report
Bug description:
On Windows, urllib.request.url2pathname() has overly simplistic handling of DOS drives in URLs.
>>> from urllib.request import url2pathname
>>> url2pathname('//host/share/spam.txt:eggs')
'T:\\eggs' # expected: r'\\host\share\spam.txt:eggs'Also:
>>> url2pathname('///c:/spam.txt:eggs')
OSError: Bad URL: ///c|/spam.txt|eggs # expected: r'c:\spam.txt:eggs'CPython versions tested on:
CPython main branch
Operating systems tested on:
Windows