I'm running Python 2.5 under Windows. If I fire up IDLE and enter: >>> import webbrowser >>> url = 'http://www.python.org' >>> webbrowser.open_new(url)
it works like a champ, opening the page in Firefox. Same thing goes from a Windows cmd shell: it works as advertised. But if I open a cygwin bash shell and try the same thing from a python prompt, I get: >>> import webbrowser >>> url = 'http://www.python.org' >>> webbrowser.open_new(url) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Python25\lib\webbrowser.py", line 60, in open_new return open(url, 1) File "C:\Python25\lib\webbrowser.py", line 55, in open if browser.open(url, new, autoraise): 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 What's up with that? And, more to the point, how can I use webbrowser from scripts launched under cygwin? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
