New submission from Andrew Dalke <da...@dalkescientific.com>: I have Firefox and Safari installed on my Mac. Safari is the default.
I wanted to try out Crunchy (http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/). It's developed under Firefox and does not work under Safari. I tried. ;) It starts the web browser with the following. try: client = webbrowser.get("firefox") client.open(url) return except: try: client = webbrowser.get() client.open(url) return except: print('Please open %s in Firefox.' % url) On my Mac, webbrowser.get("firefox") fails, so this ends up opening in Safari. Which does not work to view the code. Thing is, I have Firefox installed, so it should work. But the Mac code in webbrowser appears to only open in the default browser. The following bit of code works well enough to get crunchy to work class MacOSXFirefox(BaseBrowser): def open(self, url, new=0, autoraise=True): subprocess.check_call(["/usr/bin/open", "-b", "org.mozilla.firefox", url]) register("firefox", None, MacOSXFirefox('firefox'), -1) but I don't know enough about the Mac nor about webbrowser to know if I'm the right path. For example, I don't know if there are ways to support 'new' and 'autoraise' through /usr/bin/open or if there's a better solution. Attached is the full diff. ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: webbrowser.py.diff keywords: patch messages: 94387 nosy: dalke severity: normal status: open title: webbrowser.get("firefox") does not work on Mac with installed Firefox type: feature request Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15188/webbrowser.py.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7192> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
