https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e70ff776fdf8e239060b714ff4edcad3794e1996
commit: e70ff776fdf8e239060b714ff4edcad3794e1996
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: hugovk <[email protected]>
date: 2026-04-07T03:35:21Z
summary:

[3.10] gh-137586: Open external osascript program with absolute path 
(GH-137584) (#148177)

Co-authored-by: Fionn <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <[email protected]>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2025-10-17-01-07-03.gh-issue-137586.kVzxvp.rst
M Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py
M Lib/turtledemo/__main__.py
M Lib/webbrowser.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py b/Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py
index a3b31f169d72c6..c9f8f1bb8f16d8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ def test_default_open(self):
         url = "https://python.org";
         self.browser.open(url)
         self.assertTrue(self.popen_pipe._closed)
-        self.assertEqual(self.popen_pipe.cmd, "osascript")
+        self.assertEqual(self.popen_pipe.cmd, "/usr/bin/osascript")
         script = self.popen_pipe.pipe.getvalue()
         self.assertEqual(script.strip(), f'open location "{url}"')
 
diff --git a/Lib/turtledemo/__main__.py b/Lib/turtledemo/__main__.py
index caea022da4a688..40ebcb8c90b8b9 100755
--- a/Lib/turtledemo/__main__.py
+++ b/Lib/turtledemo/__main__.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ def __init__(self, filename=None):
             # so that our menu bar appears.
             subprocess.run(
                     [
-                        'osascript',
+                        '/usr/bin/osascript',
                         '-e', 'tell application "System Events"',
                         '-e', 'set frontmost of the first process whose '
                               'unix id is {} to true'.format(os.getpid()),
diff --git a/Lib/webbrowser.py b/Lib/webbrowser.py
index 98904163c28c77..866633790860c3 100755
--- a/Lib/webbrowser.py
+++ b/Lib/webbrowser.py
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ def open(self, url, new=0, autoraise=True):
                    end
                    '''%(self._name, url.replace('"', '%22'))
 
-            osapipe = os.popen("osascript", "w")
+            osapipe = os.popen("/usr/bin/osascript", "w")
             if osapipe is None:
                 return False
 
diff --git 
a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2025-10-17-01-07-03.gh-issue-137586.kVzxvp.rst 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2025-10-17-01-07-03.gh-issue-137586.kVzxvp.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..8e42065392a2de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2025-10-17-01-07-03.gh-issue-137586.kVzxvp.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Invoke :program:`osascript` with absolute path in :mod:`webbrowser` and 
:mod:`!turtledemo`.

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