[Yum-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add "re_remote_url()" for testing if a url is "remote"

[Mike Bonnet]

On 11/16/2009 03:08 PM, James Antill wrote:
> ---
>   yum/misc.py |    5 +++++
>   1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/yum/misc.py b/yum/misc.py
> index ee1da35..2d0ed0f 100644
> --- a/yum/misc.py
> +++ b/yum/misc.py
> @@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ def re_full_search_needed(s):
>               return True
>       return False
>
> +def re_remote_url(s):
> +    """ Tests if a string is a "remote" URL, http, https, ftp. """
> +    return (s.startswith("http://") or s.startswith("https://") or
> +            s.startswith("ftp://"))
> +
>   ###########
>   # Title: Remove duplicates from a sequence
>   # Submitter: Tim Peters

It might be easier to pass any string containing "://" to urlgrabber.  I 
believe it does the right thing with local and remote urls.