Senthil Kumaran added the comment:
The problem is here:
if url[:2] == '//' and url[2:3] != '/' and url[2:12].lower() != 'localhost/':
raise ValueError("file:// scheme is supported only on localhost")
On Unix like systems url[2:3] == '/', that is path starts with '/' and this
ValueError is escaped.
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