[issue5601] webbrowser doesn't just open browsers
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Never mind about the garbage -- I was looking at weird HTML in the
copy of the message I received but it didn't make it into the entry
on this page. I should have looked first.
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Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: I'm inclined not to document that. webbrowser is meant for URLs, the behavior if you call it with file names is undefined. -- resolution: - wont fix status: open - pending ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5601 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
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Mitchell Model m...@acm.org added the comment:
The problem is not so much that I think people should use it for file
URLs, it's that the behavior when they do can be quite confusing.
Perhaps a note that webbrowser is not meant for file URLs and that
it's behavior is undefined if it is?
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Mitchell Model m...@acm.org added the comment:
whoops
Sorry for the garbage in the previous message.
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[issue5601] webbrowser doesn't just open browsers
New submission from Mitchell Model m...@acm.org:
There is a problem with the documentation of the webbrowser module:
opening a URL doesn't necessarily open it in a browser. The
documentation of the open function and method should say that the URL is
opened in whatever application the system chooses based on
considerations such as the type of URL, an application assigned to the
file, and the application assigned to the file's type (extension).
Here's why:
The documentation of module webbrowser, as well as the name of the
module itself, only mentions browsers as what opens the given URL.
However, on some platforms (Mac OS X, e.g.) if things are configured so
there is a default application associated with a particular file
extension, the webbrowser functions will open a path to a file in the
application associated with it's file type rather than a browser. This
is true whether or not file:// precedes the file path in the URL.
For example, if .py files are set to open in IDLE,
webbrowser.open('/fullpath/to/file.py') will open /fullpath/to/file.py
in IDLE. It's even possible to assign one browser to open .htm files and
another to open .html files.
It is also possible on some platforms (Mac, again) to assign a default
application to files of a particular extension but assign a different
application to specific files with that extension.
Applications can also be assigned to URL types. For instance, you could
have an application that isn't really a browser open ftp:// URLs. (This
also can happen when you download a file from a browser and the task is
turned over to a download application such as Speed Download or
Interarchy on a Mac.)
The real problem here is that some platforms have extended the idea of
opening a URL (including a bare file path interpreted as a file:// URL)
beyond browsers per se. In a sense the entire terminology of this module
is suspect, despite its obvious intent. Although not a serious
suggestion, it would more accurately be termed the urlopen module.
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title: webbrowser doesn't just open browsers
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