Ron Adam wrote: > > Reseting the default browser with the gnome default application window > confirmed this. The browser selection can either have the quotes around > the args "%s" paremteter, or not depending on how and what sets it. > > Seems to me it should be quoted unless spaces in path names are never a > problem in Linux. So this could be both a python bug and a Gnome desktop > bug. Firefox probably does the right thing by putting the quotes around > it, but that causes problems for webbrowser.py, which doesn't expect them.
Quoting arguments in the way described is the safe, easy option (with some potential problems with ' characters that can be worked around), and I imagine that it's done precisely because other applications could pass a path with spaces as the URL, and that such applications would be invoking the command in a shell environment. Sadly, this conflicts with any other precautionary measures, causing a degree of "overquoting". Resetting the GNOME default is a workaround, but I'm not convinced that it would be satisfactory. What happens if you try and open an HTML file, in the file browser or some other application which uses the desktop preferences, where the filename contains spaces? Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
