For the record, I completely misread and misunderstood the question. I
should stop posting that late at night :P
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Demian Brecht <demianbre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rather than using a relative path, try using
> webbrowser.open('{}/documentation/help.html'.format(os.path.dirname(__file__))).
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:17 AM, llanitedave <llanited...@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?
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