Is there a convenient way to map a file uri to os.path?

Question

A subsystem which I have no control over insists on providing filesystem paths in the form of a uri. Is there a python module/function which can convert this path into the a

Answer 1

The solution from @Jakob Bowyer doesn't convert URL encoded characters to regular UTF-8 characters. For that you need to use urllib.parse.unquote.

>>> from urllib.parse import unquote, urlparse
>>> unquote(urlparse('file:///home/user/some%20file.txt').path)
'/home/user/some file.txt'