On Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:35:31 AM UTC-8, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Feb 24, 2013 1:21 AM, "llanitedave" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in a
> > documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page.
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> > On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my
> > default browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet
> > Explorer, which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight to
> > the web and does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise.
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> > My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting
> > undermined right from the start.
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> > How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows?
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> Sounds like this might be your problem:
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> http://bugs.python.org/issue8936
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> The fix would seem to be ensuring that the URL you pass includes the scheme
> (in your case, "file:").
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> Cheers,
>
> Chris
Holy Toledo! That's a two-year-old bug spanning two versions of the language!
BTW, Chris, the snippet I showed in the title essentially WAS the exact code.
It's a method with that single line called from a wxPython Help menu. I can't
really put an absolute pathname into the argument, because the application is
going to be distributed to a variety of computers at my workplace, and there's
no assurance that it will go into (or remain in)a particular folder.
I was trying to avoid using the wx.html.HtmlWindow feature of wxPython, because
it doesn't handle CSS and styles. My help page is the portal to a multi-page
users guide with a style sheet to render all the content consistently.
Plus, I couldn't get the wx.html.HtmlWindow to open relative paths either -- it
gave me "URL Malformed" messages even in KDE, when webbrowser.open("filepath")
was working for the exact same path. But that's something to take up on the
wxPython list, I guess.
This to me illustrates the downside of the Python philosophy of "There should
be only one obvious way to do things". If that one obvious way has a fatal
bug, you're pretty much SOL.
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