Ron Adam said unto the world upon 05/25/2007 12:28 PM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On May 24, 5:03 pm, Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is anyone else having problems with the webbrowser module? >>> >>> Python 2.5.1c1 (release25-maint, Apr 12 2007, 21:00:25) >>> [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2 >>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> >>> import webbrowser >>> >>> webbrowser.open('http://www.python.org') >>> True >>> >>> >>> >>> It opens firefox as expected, but the url is ... >>> >>> file:///home/ron/%22http://www.python.org%22 >>> >>> Which of course doesn't do what is expected. >>> >>> Any ideas?
<snip> > > It works for me on python 2.4 also, but not on later versions. > > Looks like I'll need to try to test the url at the point where it calls the > browser from webbrowser.py. > > Can someone else test this on python 2.5? > > Ron Works fine for me on ubuntu 7.04 (fiesty) with Python 2.5.1c1, which appear to be your set-up, too. Python 2.5.1c1 (release25-maint, Apr 12 2007, 21:00:25) [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import webbrowser >>> webbrowser.open('http://www.python.org') True >>> Best, Brian vdB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list