On Sunday, February 24, 2013 12:50:02 PM UTC-8, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 24/02/2013 20:28, llanitedave wrote: > > > On Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:35:31 AM UTC-8, Chris Rebert wrote: > > >> On Feb 24, 2013 1:21 AM, "llanitedave" <llani...@veawb.coop> wrote: > > >> > > >>> > > >> > > >>> I created an html help page for my Python 2.7.3 application and put it in > >>> a documentation folder. I used webbrowser.open() to fetch the page. > > >> > > >>> > > >> > > >>> On linux -- KDE specifically, the command opens the local file on my > >>> default browser with no issues. However, on Windows 7, it opens Internet > >>> Explorer, which doesn't even search the local folder, but goes straight > >>> to the web and does a Google search, returning nothing but useless noise. > > >> > > >> > > >>> > > >> > > >>> My default browser on Windows is Chrome, so my intention is getting > >>> undermined right from the start. > > >> > > >>> > > >> > > >>> How do I get a local html file to open properly from Python in Windows? > > >> > > >> Sounds like this might be your problem: > > >> > > >> http://bugs.python.org/issue8936 > > >> > > >> The fix would seem to be ensuring that the URL you pass includes the > >> scheme (in your case, "file:"). > > >> > > >> Cheers, > > >> > > >> Chris > > > > > > Holy Toledo! That's a two-year-old bug spanning two versions of the > > language! > > > > Only two years is nothing. Pay your money, take your choice :) > > > > > This to me illustrates the downside of the Python philosophy of "There > > should be only one obvious way to do things". If that one obvious way has > > a fatal bug, you're pretty much SOL. > > > > Misquoted as always. I guess that some day someone will quote it correctly. > > > > -- > > Cheers. > > > > Mark Lawrence
I think the correct quote is "You pays your money, and you takes your chances". ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
