This has never worked on Windows. Now it does. If it breaks on Unix now,

great, it's your turn to watch it fail for months <0.9 wink>.

Lib/test/test_urllib2.py

 from test_support import verify
 import urllib2
+import os
 
 # A couple trivial tests
 
@@ -10,7 +11,12 @@ except ValueError:
 else:
     verify(0)
 
-file_url = "file://%s" % urllib2.__file__
+# XXX Name hacking to get this to work on Windows.
+fname = os.path.abspath(urllib2.__file__).replace('\\', '/')
+if fname[1:2] == ":":
+    fname = fname[2:]
+file_url = "file://%s" % fname
 f = urllib2.urlopen(file_url)
+
 buf = f.read()
 f.close()