That is a good tip and seems to be the place I need to look - not really quite sure what I am looking at in the help docs I also have the complication of having to use is it "C:\\" - two back slashes?
I am trying to get a wikipedia directed search that will load firefox and search for an inputted word . . .
You might look at the webbrowser module, it makes it easy to load the default browser. If you always want firefox I don't know if it will work though:
>>> import webbrowser
>>> url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"; + 'Python'
>>> webbrowser.open(url)
Anyway this is the code (only my second useful program) eh - not working so far . . .
usually dumbing down help appreciated
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Ed Jason
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# Wikipedia search engine # Sunday Feb 12
import os word_sought = raw_input("What is your wikipedia search word? ")
goto_url_location = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"; + word_sought
print goto_url_location
os.execv('C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe') + goto_url_location
Not sure but I think this should be os.execl(r'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe', goto_url_location)
Note the use of raw string so \ means what you want, and goto_url_location is inside the parens.
Kent
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