Given a playlist, copy all the music files it contains to a /tmp folder.

playlist-export.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import urllib
import shutil

lines = []
playlist = "/tmp/Test.pls"
playlist_name = playlist.split("/")[-1]
playlist_name = playlist_name.split(".")[0]
destination_folder = "/tmp/%s" % playlist_name
if not os.path.exists(destination_folder):
    os.mkdir(destination_folder)

with open(playlist, "r") as f:
    lines = f.readlines()

for line in lines:
    if "file://" in line:
        # Strip all that isn't the URL
        line = line.split("=")[1]
        # Remove the trailin /n
        line = line.replace("\n", "")
        # remove the leading "file://"
        line = line.replace("file://", "")
        nice_line = urllib.unquote(line)
        #nice_line = nice_line.replace(" ", "\ ")
        #nice_line = nice_line.replace("(", "\(")
        #nice_line = nice_line.replace(")", "\)")
        filename = nice_line.split("/")[-1]
        if os.path.exists(nice_line):
            destination = destination_folder + "/" + filename
            shutil.copyfile(nice_line, destination)