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 91e14f3ac25466addfdc752ad6e3a87f00e601f2..33091ff03f35930a9ce2fd6d912b956a0e5fb3cf 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/plat-mac/ic.py
+++ b/Lib/plat-mac/ic.py
@@ -195,6 +195,10 @@ class IC:
                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=""):