Merge pull request matplotlib#5071 from cgohlke/patch-2

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit 38fee264623e · 2015-09-15T07:54:26.000-04:00
FIX: URLError: &lt;urlopen error unknown url type: c&gt; on Windows
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/image.py b/lib/matplotlib/image.py
@@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@ def pilread(fname):
     if cbook.is_string_like(fname):
         parsed = urlparse(fname)
         # If fname is a URL, download the data
-        if parsed.scheme != '':
+        if len(parsed.scheme) > 1:
             fd = BytesIO(urlopen(fname).read())
             return handler(fd)
         else:
