Bengt Richter wrote: > How about finding the browser via .html association and then letting that > handle the url? E.g., slong the lines of > > >>> import os > >>> ft = os.popen('assoc .html').read().split('=',1)[1].strip() > >>> ft > 'MozillaHTML' > >>> os.popen('ftype %s'%ft).read().split('=',1)[1].strip() > 'D:\\MOZ\\MOZILL~1\\MOZILL~1.EXE -url "%1"'
I'm not certain that's safe in all cases. On my machine it does map to Firefox, but there's also a registry class called "htmlfile" which I think is used in some circumstances (not sure what they might be... this crap is all black magic as far as I'm concerned), and on my machine it is still pointing here: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -nohome And that's even with Firefox set up as both the default browser and as the browser to launch from the Start menu (which are not the same thing, as I sadly learned while coming up with the "http" approach I mentioned in another post). -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list