[Python-Dev] webbrowser.py: browser >/dev/null 2>&1 (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Thu Mar 24 00:45:11 CET 2005

On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:25, Rodrigo Dias Arruda Senra wrote:

Under some linux distros (I'm positive for some Mdk releases), Mozilla is compiled dumping a lot of info to stdout/stderr. Since one of the goals of webbrowser is to give the end-user a stress-free experience, there goes the mentioned nullification .

This sounds familliar. This was certainly true when Mozilla was young and I actually wrote the webbrowser module. (Or was that, when Grail was young? I don't even remember if there was a Mozilla for the first version!)

In a development environment, a developer should not find difficulty to reverse that if needed.

Right. I think if the API provides a control for this and some mention is made in the documentation, that would be good.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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