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Improve file URI ergonomics in urllib.request #125866

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I request that we make pathname2url and url2pathname easier to use:

  • pathname2url() is made to accept an optional include_scheme argument that sticks file: on the front when true
  • url2pathname() is made to strip any file: prefix from its argument.

I think this would go a long way towards making these functions usable, and allow us to remove the scary "This does not accept/produce a complete URL" warnings from the docs.

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