On Jan 15, 8:14 pm, Timur Tabi <ti...@freescale.com> wrote: > After reading several web pages and mailing list threads, I've learned > that the webbrowser module does not really support opening local > files, even if I use a file:// URL designator. In most cases, > webbrowser.open() will indeed open the default web browser, but with > Python 2.6 on my Fedora 10 system, it opens a text editor instead. On > Python 2.5, it opens the default web browser. > > This is a problem because my Python script creates a local HTML file > and I want it displayed on the web browser. > > So is there any way to force webbrowser.open() to always use an actual > web browser? > > -- > Timur Tabi > Linux kernel developer at Freescale
Might not be useful, but trying open_new_tab() on... Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41) [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import webbrowser as wb >>> x = wb.get() >>> x.basename 'gnome-open' When attempting to use open_new_tab(), I get: file:///home/jon/blahblah.html - opens in Firefox file:///home/jon/blahblah.txt - opens in gedit Jon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
