On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote: > Ethan Furman <[email protected]> writes: > >> Okay, the explicit Python question: Clicking on a mail link in a web >> browser can start an external program. I would like that external >> program to be a Python script that [controls an already-running web >> browser to visit a URL and operate a web application]. >> >> Surely this can be done in Python. > > Perhaps. I'd advise a web search for “python script web browser”, and be > prepared for also learning how your specific operating system allows > programs to control each other in separate processes.
Or just look at antigravity.py in the standard library, which has a way of invoking a web browser - probably something trivially easy, like calling on the webbrowser module, but it's more fun to look it up via the arcane. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
