On 27 Jan, 23:00, Mitchell L Model wrote:
>
> I suppose that since a file: URL is not, strictly speaking, on the
> web, that it shouldn't be opened with a "web" browser.
But anything with a URL is (or should be regarded as being) on the
Web. It may not be anything more than a local resource and
On Jan 27, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Mitchell L Model
wrote:
I had some discussions with the Python documentation writers that
led to the
following note being included in the Python 3.1 library
documentation for
webbrowser.open: "Note that on s
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Mitchell L Model wrote:
> I had some discussions with the Python documentation writers that led to the
> following note being included in the Python 3.1 library documentation for
> webbrowser.open: "Note that on some platforms, trying to open a filename
> using t
On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Timur Tabi
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 brow
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Paul Boddie wrote:
> Generally, the desktop-specific tools should know that a browser is
> the appropriate application for an HTML file, and testing with both
> xdg-open, gnome-open and "kfmclient openURL" seems to open browsers on
> HTML files (using file:///...)
On 15 Jan, 21:14, Timur Tabi 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 brow
On Jan 16, 5:08 pm, Jonathan Temple wrote:
> On Jan 15, 8:14 pm, Timur Tabi 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 case
On Jan 15, 8:14 pm, Timur Tabi 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 br
