On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 03:24:58 pm Ranjith Kumar wrote: > Hi all, > I`m using ubuntu how to find and print the installed web > browsers using python scripting.
You already asked this question on the 9th of August, in an email titled "Need a mentor": 4) Lastly I need to know is how to print the list of web browsers installed on a machine. The answer is the same now as it was then: You can't. I gave a much longer reply back then. But in summary: * there's no canonical list of web browsers you could look for; * there's no reliable way of recognizing a web browser short of human intelligence; * it's not even clear what a web browser is. Obviously a web browser is something that can browse the WWW, but that's much, much broader than just Firefox and IE. Python can browse the web. Does that mean Python is a web browser? Adobe Acrobat can download upgrades over the web. Does that make it a web browser? How about curl or wget? Many applications can read files remotely over http. Some of them can follow embedded hyperlinks. Are they web browsers? -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
