Paul Boddie wrote: > 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?
I'm not sure how to test this. Most things I can think of call the web browser directly. Maybe a link in an email? Yes, it is a work around. The webbrowser module needs to be smarter about quotes. As I said, this is fixed in 2.6 already. I emailed the module maintainer, and will probably file a bug report too. Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
