--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/path2url.py	Sat Mar 17 12:18:25 2018 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
+from os.path import abspath
+from urllib.parse import quote, urlunsplit
+
+
+def tourl(path):
+    """ Make path absolute and turn it into file: URL.
+        Useful for creating thumbnails (following freedesktop.org spec).
+    """
+    return urlunsplit(('file', '', quote(abspath(path)), '', ''))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument('path', help='file path')
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    print(tourl(args.path))