The functions urlparse.url{,un}split() and urllib{,2}.open() do not work 
together for relative, local files, due a bug in urlunsplit.

Given a file f='./rel/path/to/file.html' it can be open directly by 
urllib.open(f), but not in urllib2! as the later needs a scheme.
We can create a sound url with spilt/unspilt and a default scheme:
f2=urlparse.urlunsplit(urlparse.urlsplit(f,'file')); which works most 
cases, HOWEVER a bogus netloc is added for relative filepaths.

If have isolated this  "buggy" function, added some local testcode and 
made patch/workaround in my file 'unsplit.py' Which is included. Hope 
this will contribute to a real patch.


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