On Jan 16, 5:08 pm, Jonathan Temple <jonntem...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Jan 15, 8:14 pm, Timur Tabi <ti...@freescale.com> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > Might not be useful, but trying open_new_tab() on... > > Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:56:41) > [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> > import webbrowser as wb > >>> x = wb.get() > >>> x.basename > > 'gnome-open' > > When attempting to use open_new_tab(), I get: > > file:///home/jon/blahblah.html - opens in Firefox > file:///home/jon/blahblah.txt - opens in gedit > > Jon.
Err, I'd just like to mention that "Jonathan Temple" did not post that message: He was checking his Google Mail on my machine, and when I went to send my post, it got a little confused. Cheers, Jon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
