After reading several web pages and mailing list threads, I've learned that the webbrowser module does not really support opening local files, even if I use a file:// URL designator. In most cases, webbrowser.open() will indeed open the default web browser, but with Python 2.6 on my Fedora 10 system, it opens a text editor instead. On Python 2.5, it opens the default web browser.
This is a problem because my Python script creates a local HTML file and I want it displayed on the web browser. So is there any way to force webbrowser.open() to always use an actual web browser? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
