Question

A subsystem which I have no control over insists on providing filesystem paths in the form of a uri. Is there a python module/function which can convert this path into the appropriate form expected by the filesystem in a platform independent manner?

Answer 1

Use urllib.parse.urlparse to get the path from the URI:

import os
from urllib.parse import urlparse
p = urlparse('file://C:/test/doc.txt')
final_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(p.netloc, p.path))