New submission from Michael Schurter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On the joyous occasion of Python 3000's release my friends & I were playing with "import antigravity" and it failed for someone with the following traceback (anonymized):
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/.../lib/python3.0/antigravity.py", line 4, in <module> webbrowser.open("http://xkcd.com/353/") File "/.../lib/python3.0/webbrowser.py", line 61, in open if browser.open(url, new, autoraise): File "/.../lib/python3.0/webbrowser.py", line 275, in open success = self._invoke(args, True, autoraise) File "/.../lib/python3.0/webbrowser.py", line 226, in _invoke inout = open(os.devnull, "r+") File "/.../lib/python3.0/webbrowser.py", line 61, in open if browser.open(url, new, autoraise): File "/.../lib/python3.0/webbrowser.py", line 271, in open "expected 0, 1, or 2, got %s" % new) webbrowser.Error: Bad 'new' parameter to open(); expected 0, 1, or 2, got r+ I believe the following patch (against branches/release30-maint) fixes it cleanly: Index: Lib/webbrowser.py =================================================================== --- Lib/webbrowser.py (revision 67538) +++ Lib/webbrowser.py (working copy) @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import stat import subprocess import time +import builtins __all__ = ["Error", "open", "open_new", "open_new_tab", "get", "register"] @@ -223,7 +224,7 @@ cmdline = [self.name] + raise_opt + args if remote or self.background: - inout = open(os.devnull, "r+") + inout = builtins.open(os.devnull, "r+") else: # for TTY browsers, we need stdin/out inout = None ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 76931 nosy: schmichael severity: normal status: open title: webbrowser.UnixBrowser should use builtins.open type: crash versions: Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4537> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com