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-rw-r--r--Lib/urllib.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index 758ab92..7b39ea9 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ class URLopener:
def open_file(self, url):
"""Use local file or FTP depending on form of URL."""
- if url[:2] == '//' and url[2:3] != '/':
+ if url[:2] == '//' and url[2:3] != '/' and url[2:12] != 'localhost/':
return self.open_ftp(url)
else:
return self.open_local_file(url)