[Python-Dev] patching webbrowser.py for OS X (original) (raw)

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 12 14:59:15 EST 2004

On Jan 12, 2004, at 8:45 PM, Brendan O'Connor wrote:

Hi wonderful python folks,

I was trying to use the webbrowser module with OS X's preinstalled python; I'm not very familiar with OS X, but I just patched webbrowser.py to use the very generic "open" command, which works for the simple webbrowser.open(url). I've heard that Fink or another port would be more complete; on the other hand, I'm using computers where I can't install software myself, so this is useful for me. Any thoughts or issues?

As a brand-new user of Mac OS X, "open" appears to be the right solution to me, picking up whatever settings one may have made for a different browser than Safari, not requiring fink, etc, etc. However, we should probably double-check on pythonmac-sig, where the REAL Mac Pythonistas hang out...

Alex

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