On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:37 AM, eryk sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:51 AM, jkn <jkn...@nicorp.f9.co.uk> wrote:
>>> I happy to carve some code without using urllib, but I am not clear what I
>>> actually need to do to 'open' such a URL using this protocol. FWIW I can
>>> paste
>>> this URL into Windows Explorer and I get the referenced email popping up ;-)
>>
>> What happens if you invoke the 'start' command using subprocess?
>>
>> subprocess.check_call(["start", url])
>>
>> In theory, that should be equivalent to pasting it into Explorer. In theory.
>
> start is a shell command. It also has a quirk that the first quoted
> argument is the window title. Here's the correct call:
>
> subprocess.check_call('start "title" "%s"' % url, shell=True)
Is that properly escaped to handle any arbitrary URL? I doubt it.
Do you actually need shell=True? I would strongly recommend using the
form that I used, unless it can be proven that that doesn't work.
> That said, since no arguments are being passed the simpler and more
> secure way to call ShellExecute in this case is os.startfile(url).
Yes. The OP mentioned having tried this, though, so I went for an alternative.
ChrisA
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