Dustan wrote: > MonkeeSage wrote: >> Dustan wrote: >> > I did do a search here, but came up empty-handed. Can anyone tell me >> > how to get the webbrowser module to recognize firefox's existence, >> > given this information? >> >> Looks like it is checking %PATH% for firefox.exe. Try: >> >> >>> import os >> >>> os.environ["PATH"] = r"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox;" >> >>> import webbrowser >> >>> webbrowser._browsers >> >> Regards, >> Jordan > > Thanks! But I'm still getting an error message: > >>>> import webbrowser >>>> webbrowser._browsers > {'windows-default': [<class 'webbrowser.WindowsDefault'>, None], > 'firefox': [None, <webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser object at 0x00BAC8D0>]} >>>> cont=webbrowser._browsers['firefox'][1] >>>> cont > <webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser object at 0x00BAC8D0> >>>> cont.open("http://www.google.com") > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#10>", line 1, in <module> > cont.open("http://www.google.com") > File "C:\Python25\lib\webbrowser.py", line 185, in open > p = subprocess.Popen(cmdline, close_fds=True, preexec_fn=setsid) > File "C:\Python25\lib\subprocess.py", line 551, in __init__ > raise ValueError("close_fds is not supported on Windows " > ValueError: close_fds is not supported on Windows platforms > > Looking in the docs on subprocess.Popopen > (http://docs.python.org/lib/node529.html), it says "If close_fds is > true, all file descriptors except 0, 1 and 2 will be closed before the > child process is executed. (Unix only)". I have to be frank; I have no > idea what this means. What should I do to fix this?
This is a bug, and has now been fixed in SVN. As a workaround, you can edit the webbrowser.py file and remove the close_fds and preexec_fn arguments to Popen. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list