On 27 Jan, 23:00, Mitchell L Model wrote:
>
> I suppose that since a file: URL is not, strictly speaking, on the
> web, that it shouldn't be opened with a "web" browser.
But anything with a URL is (or should be regarded as being) on the
Web. It may not be anything more than a local resource and
On Jan 27, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Mitchell L Model
wrote:
I had some discussions with the Python documentation writers that
led to the
following note being included in the Python 3.1 library
documentation for
webbrowser.open: "Note that on s
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Mitchell L Model wrote:
> I had some discussions with the Python documentation writers that led to the
> following note being included in the Python 3.1 library documentation for
> webbrowser.open: "Note that on some platforms, trying to open a filename
> using t
On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Timur Tabi
After reading several web pages and mailing list threads, I've learned
that the webbrowser module does not really support opening local
files, even if I use a file:// URL designator. In most cases,
webbrowser.open() will indeed open the default web brow
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Paul Boddie wrote:
> Generally, the desktop-specific tools should know that a browser is
> the appropriate application for an HTML file, and testing with both
> xdg-open, gnome-open and "kfmclient openURL" seems to open browsers on
> HTML files (using file:///...)
On 15 Jan, 21:14, Timur Tabi wrote:
> After reading several web pages and mailing list threads, I've learned
> that the webbrowser module does not really support opening local
> files, even if I use a file:// URL designator. In most cases,
> webbrowser.open() will indeed open the default web brow
On Jan 16, 5:08 pm, Jonathan Temple wrote:
> On Jan 15, 8:14 pm, Timur Tabi wrote:
>
>
>
> > After reading several web pages and mailing list threads, I've learned
> > that the webbrowser module does not really support opening local
> > files, even if I use a file:// URL designator. In most case
On Jan 15, 8:14 pm, Timur Tabi wrote:
> After reading several web pages and mailing list threads, I've learned
> that the webbrowser module does not really support opening local
> files, even if I use a file:// URL designator. In most cases,
> webbrowser.open() will indeed open the default web br
After reading several web pages and mailing list threads, I've learned
that the webbrowser module does not really support opening local
files, even if I use a file:// URL designator. In most cases,
webbrowser.open() will indeed open the default web browser, but with
Python 2.6 on my Fedora 10 syst