thanks Mike, with your links I managed to write some code that seems to work well. Still I stay surprised that these kind of functions are not available ;-) cheers, Stef
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jan 9, 3:22 pm, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> hello, >> >> I'm trying to convert the links in html pages to absolute links, >> these pages can either be webpages or files on local harddisk (winXP). >> Now I've struggling for a while, and this code works a lilttle: >> >> i = line.find ( 'href=' ) >> if i < 0 : >> i = line.find ( ' src=' ) >> if i >= 0 : >> ii = line.find ( '"', i+6 ) >> file = line [ i+6 : ii ] >> #print urlparse.urljoin ( p, file ) >> if file.find ( 'http:' ) < 0 : >> abspath = os.path.normpath ( os.path.join ( p, file ) ) >> line = line.replace ( file, abspath ) >> print line >> >> but it only covers files on local disk and just 1 link per line, >> so I guess it's a lot of trouble to catch all cases. >> Isn't there a convenient function for (OS independent preferable) ? >> Googled for it, but can't find it. >> >> thanks, >> Stef Mientki >> > > I googled a bit too. The Perl forums talk about using a regular > expression. You can probably take that and translate it into the > Python equivalent: > > http://forums.devshed.com/perl-programming-6/how-to-parse-relatives-links-to-absolute-links-8173.html > > I also found this, which appears to be an old c.l.py thread: > > http://www.dbforums.com/archive/index.php/t-320359.html > > You might have more luck if you google for "relative to absolute > links". I would also take a look at how django or cherrypy creates > their URLs. > > Mike > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
