def local_open(url):
    scheme, server, path, param, query, frag = urlparse.urlparse(url)
    filename = urllib.url2pathname(path)
    if os.path.isfile(filename):
        return urllib2.urlopen(url)
    elif path.endswith('/') and os.path.isdir(filename):
        files = []
        for f in os.listdir(filename):
            if f=='index.html':
                fp = open(os.path.join(filename,f),'rb')
                body = fp.read()
                fp.close()
                break
            elif os.path.isdir(os.path.join(filename,f)):
                f+='/'
            files.append("<a href=%r>%s</a>" % (f,f))
        else:
            body = ("<html><head><title>%s</title>" % url) + \
                "</head><body>%s</body></html>" % '\n'.join(files)
        status, message = 200, "OK"
    else:
        status, message, body = 404, "Path not found", "Not found"

    return urllib2.HTTPError(url, status, message,
            {'content-type':'text/html'}, cStringIO.StringIO(body))













# this line is a kludge to keep the trailing blank lines for pje's editor
Background the current process
dataset/ETHPy150Open balanced/status.balancedpayments.com/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.34-py2.7.egg/setuptools/package_index.py/local_open--crossover with--dataset/ETHPy150Open marineam/nagcat/python/nagcat/util.py/daemonize