diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -1768,7 +1768,7 @@
         try:
             stats = os.stat(localname)
         except OSError as e:
-            raise URLError(e.errno, e.strerror, e.filename)
+            raise URLError('local file error')
         size = stats.st_size
         modified = email.utils.formatdate(stats.st_mtime, usegmt=True)
         mtype = mimetypes.guess_type(url)[0]