On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, I realize this is slightly off topic and maybe belongs to a > gnome email list but it's nevertheless python: > > I use an old python program that was written for gnome 2 and gtk 2 and > uses the function get_local_path_from_uri. More specifically it uses > gnomevfs.get_local_path_from_uri. > > Now with gnome 3 the module pygnomevfs does not exist anymore and > after checking the source for pygnomevfs it turns out it's written in > C using all the header files and stuff from gnome 2. So I can't just > lift it from the source. I was hoping it's pure python in which case I > could have simply lifted it. > > Does anyone know what a good replacement for get_local_path_from_uri > is? Is there a gtk/gnome/etc related python package that contains it > which would work with gnome 3? Or a totally gnome-independent python > implementation?
The commit https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2009-May/msg05733.html suggests that get_local_path_from_uri() might have been defined as (taking slight liberties): gnome_vfs_unescape_string(remove_host_from_uri(uri)) Assuming these functions do the "obvious" things implied by their names (you can probably chase down the Gnome VFS source or docs to check; I don't care enough to bother), given a general URI "protocol://host/path", it presumably returns either "protocol:///path" (`protocol:` likely being "file:" in this case) or "/path", in either case with `path` having been un-percent-escaped. The latter transform can be done using http://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html#urllib.unquote Alternately, you might call the Gnome VFS C API directly via http://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html Merry Solstice, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
