Chris Angelico wrote, on January 04, 2017 3:49 PM > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Deborah Swanson > <pyt...@deborahswanson.net> wrote: > > > > Thank you, thank you! Finally, at least one person on this list knows > > about something (anything) in the python world that is internet aware. <snip> > > We've been all talking at cross purposes a bit in this > thread. Most of us thought you were talking about the *user > interface* of a clickable link, but if you're talking about > the *mechanics* of HTTP downloads, Python has excellent > facilities. I'd recommend checking out the third-party > 'requests' module on PyPI.
My original question was in fact whether there was a way to make clickable hyperlinks in a console. I was persuaded after about 10 replies that the answer was no, and I tried with little success to change the question to one of directly opening a url in a browser from Python. (In hindsight, maybe I should have started a new thread.) Turns out this version of the question does have good answers, but the revised question got totally drowned out in the scramble to show that clickable links in a console are a no-go. I'm not surprised that you didn't see the shift in what I was looking for. <snip> > > Hehe, yeah. It's a big joke that started because XKCD > mentioned the language. But actually, the source code for > antigravity.py itself isn't significant; all it does is call > on the webbrowser module: > https://docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html I saw how insignificant antigravity's code is when I downloaded it from the Package Index, and I copied the current version into another message of yours that I replied to before this one. The original antigravity may have used webbrowser, but now it just returns a url and hands it off to import to open it. Maybe the author didn't know import had that capability until after antigravity had been in the wild awhile. Regardless, antigravity does point the way to pythonic web access. > Yes, I'd gotten as far as figuring out that you don't need a clickable > link. Code that opens a url in a browser would do the job just fine. Or > the webbrowser.open("http://......./";) in a Linux terminal you > suggest. (I just have to get my Linux machine up and running again to > try it.) > > All in all, given that clickable urls in a console is a non-starter, > this hits the nail on the head. Many thanks again! Cool! Glad I could help out a bit. There are a few different things you can consider: 1) Open up a browser tab and let the user see the result 2) Make the request programmatically and access the text of the page for further processing 3) Invoke a hidden web browser, browse to a URL, submit form data, etc, as a means of testing a web server. All three are possible. Take your pick! ChrisA I have a fourth option. I use Firefox with profiles and I could make one specifically for this task, and have the code open the page in that profile. This would give it it's own window, history, bookmarks, and sqlite database, which could be handy if a particular url continues to be a problem, or I want to track it for some reason. In this project I usually would want to look at the photos, so a text download wouldn't be that helpful. But it could be in some other project, and I expect to be doing quite a bit of web work down the road. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
