On Aug 6, 5:42 am, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 06 August 2007, dimitri pater wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have a question regarding the use of webbrowser.open. > > On a windows XP machine, MS-IE is set as the default browser so when I do: > > webbrowser.open('http://localhost:8080') IE starts with this address. > > But in stead of launching IE, I want to launch Firefox *without* setting > > Firefox as the default browser globally on this machine. > > > Any hints, ideas? Your help is most appreciated. > > take an educated guess where to find firefox, check if it's there, and do > something like > os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, where_firefox_is, "http://localhost:8080") > > -- > Regards, Thomas Jollans > GPG key: 0xF421434B may be found on various keyservers, eg pgp.mit.edu > Hacker key <http://hackerkey.com/>: > v4sw6+8Yhw4/5ln3pr5Ock2ma2u7Lw2Nl7Di2e2t3/4TMb6HOPTen5/6g5OPa1XsMr9p-7/-6 > > signature.asc > 1KDownload
Shouldn't you be using the subprocess module instead as it is replacing the os.spawn* functionality from 2.4 on? See http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/module-subprocess.html If so, then the code would be: subprocess.Popen(r'where_firefox_is http://localhost:8080') Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list