[issue21248] BROWSER env var described inaccurately in webbrowser docs

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Thanks for the bug report. The documentation has been fixed in the active versions. -- versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker __

[issue21248] BROWSER env var described inaccurately in webbrowser docs

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 503bf9dee28e by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.4': Clarify BROWSER envar behavior in webbrowser.py. Noted by David Turner. Closes #21248 http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/503bf9dee28e -- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> fixed stage: -> commi

[issue21248] BROWSER env var described inaccurately in webbrowser docs

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Which may be sane thing thing do. So the docs could be made better. Like - the list of browsers specified in env var BROWSER is tried first before looking at the platform defaults. -- nosy: +orsenthil ___ Python tr

[issue21248] BROWSER env var described inaccurately in webbrowser docs

New submission from David Turner: https://docs.python.org/2/library/webbrowser.html says "If the environment variable BROWSER exists, it is interpreted to override the platform default list of browsers, as a os.pathsep-separated list of browsers to try in order." This is not actually what happ