Issue 4828: patch suggestion for webbrowser (original) (raw)

Issue4828

Created on 2009-01-04 10:09 by Yinon, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (5)
msg79041 - (view)	Author: Yinon Ehrlich (Yinon)	Date: 2009-01-04 10:13
this will find applications/batch files ending with .com or .cmd too.
msg80014 - (view)	Author: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc (amaury.forgeotdarc) *	Date: 2009-01-17 13:36
I was to suggest to use the PATHEXT variable instead of a hardcoded list of extensions, but does all this work at all? For example, I added a "opera.bat" in my current directory. a browser named 'opera' was registered, but it did not start! >>> webbrowser.get('opera').open('http://www.google.com') False And indeed, the subprocess module does not start .bat files unless "shell=True" is given.
msg85720 - (view)	Author: anatoly techtonik (techtonik)	Date: 2009-04-07 15:53
Windows has a plenty of executable extensions that can be dynamically added. You may want to look at patch at issue 2200 http://bugs.python.org/file11359/spawn.patch.txt for workaround.
msg119677 - (view)	Author: anatoly techtonik (techtonik)	Date: 2010-10-27 07:21
Any explanations?
msg119680 - (view)	Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *	Date: 2010-10-27 07:30
Oh, sorry. Shouldn't do too many things at once. Well, I think there aren't many webbrowsers that come as a .com file, for example. And as Amaury shows, the patch can't be applied as is anyway.