Support linked images

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mammoth/docx/files.py b/mammoth/docx/files.py
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+++ b/mammoth/docx/files.py
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+import os
+import contextlib
+try:
+    from urllib2 import urlopen
+except ImportError:
+    from urllib.request import urlopen
+try:
+    from urllib.parse import urlparse
+except ImportError:
+    from urlparse import urlparse
+
+
+class Files(object):
+    def __init__(self, base):
+        self._base = base
+    
+    def open(self, uri):
+        if _is_absolute(uri):
+            return contextlib.closing(urlopen(uri))
+        else:
+            return open(os.path.join(self._base, uri), "rb")
+
+
+def _is_absolute(url):
+    return urlparse(url).scheme != ""