getting absolute path ?

[Stef Mientki]

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

[kyosohma]

On Jan 9, 3:22 pm, Stef Mientki <[e-mail]:

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-progr...inks-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

[Stef Mientki]

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

ky******@gmail.com wrote:

On Jan 9, 3:22 pm, Stef Mientki <[e-mail]:

>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-progr...inks-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