Quoting Terry Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there any way, from within Python, to cause the default browser > (Firefox, in my case) to be invoked with a specific URL?
If you're on Win32, try: >>> import win32api >>> win32api.ShellExecute(0, 'open', 'http://www.google.com/', None, '', 1) Parameters in order: - Handle to the parent window (0 for no parent) - Operation to perform (you can also use 'print', and maybe others?) - Name of the file/shortcut to execute - Optional parameters for the new process - Initial directory for the new process - Flag indicating if the new window should be shown or not. [information from Mark Hammond's book] Basically, this does the same thing as double-clicking on the file/shortcut in Windows Explorer. If you're on Linux, I'm not sure. I think different distros / window managers may have different ways of defining things like a default browser, or different ways of getting at them. And I don't know anything about Mac OS X :-) -- John. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
