Translate a /-separated PATH to the local filename syntax.
        Components that mean special things to the local file system
        (e.g. drive or directory names) are ignored.  (XXX They should
        probably be diagnosed.)

def translate_path(self, path):
        """Translate a /-separated PATH to the local filename syntax.
        Components that mean special things to the local file system
        (e.g. drive or directory names) are ignored.  (XXX They should
        probably be diagnosed.)

        """
        # abandon query parameters
        path = path.split('?', 1)[0]
        path = path.split('#', 1)[0]
        # Don't forget explicit trailing slash when normalizing. Issue17324
        trailing_slash = path.rstrip().endswith('/')
        path = posixpath.normpath(urllib.unquote(path))
        # remove url_prefix
        #print "PATH 1: ", path, self._url_prefix
        path = path.replace(self._url_prefix, '/', 1)
        #print "PATH 2: ", path
        words = path.split('/')
        words = filter(None, words)
        # This the new way to NOT only work in CWD
        path = self._root
        for word in words:
            if os.path.dirname(word) or word in (os.curdir, os.pardir):
                # Ignore components that are not a simple file/directory name
                continue
            path = os.path.join(path, word)
        if trailing_slash:
            path += '/'
        #print "PATH: ", path
        #print "URL_PREFIX", self._url_prefix
        #print "PREFIX", self.prefix
        return path