Bugs item #1081879, was opened at 2004-12-09 00:14
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Stewart Midwinter (midtoad)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Pydoc can't find browser (bug+solution!)
Initial Comment:
I've got Python 2.3 installed on Mandrake Linux 10.1 with
KDE 3.2 running. When I run "pydoc -g" and search on
any term, if I try to display the relevant documentation,
pydoc throws an exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1345, in
__call__
return self.func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/pydoc.py", line 1970, in open
webbrowser.open(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/webbrowser.py", line 43, in
open
get().open(url, new, autoraise)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/webbrowser.py", line 38, in get
raise Error("could not locate runnable browser")
Error: could not locate runnable browser
I did some research and found that the problem is that
KDE sets the BROWSER environment variable to an
unexpected value:
BROWSER='kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing'
The solution would be to test for this strange setting. I
patched webbrowser.py on my system in an inelegant
fashion by simply inserting the following code at the top
of the file, just after the 'import' statements:
#patch for KDE mangling of BROWSER environment
variable
#per:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2004-September/032060.html
if os.environ.has_key("BROWSER") and \
os.environ["BROWSER"]=='kfmclient openProfile
webbrowsing':
os.environ["BROWSER"] = 'konqueror' # set it to
konqueror
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>Comment By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Date: 2006-08-03 16:55
Message:
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Or perhaps webbrowser.py should execute the command using
os.system() or some similar mechanism that would split on
the whitespace and treat the additional arguments correctly.
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