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| author | Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com> |
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| date | Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:05:46 -0700 |
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| 1 def load(resource): | |
| 2 """ | |
| 3 open a file or URL for reading. If the passed resource string is not a URL, | |
| 4 or begins with 'file://', return a ``file``. Otherwise, return the | |
| 5 result of urllib2.urlopen() | |
| 6 """ | |
| 7 | |
| 8 # handle file URLs separately due to python stdlib limitations | |
| 9 if resource.startswith('file://'): | |
| 10 resource = resource[len('file://'):] | |
| 11 | |
| 12 if not is_url(resource): | |
| 13 # if no scheme is given, it is a file path | |
| 14 return file(resource) | |
| 15 | |
| 16 return urllib2.urlopen(resource) |