[issue10799] Improve webbrowser (.open) doc and behavior

2013-03-28 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I do not know if 'must' is true on all systems, but I certainly think we should say that a full url 'might be required' to succeed. On win7, "C:/program files (86)/mozilla firefox" (until mozilla decides to distribute a 64-bit version ;-). -- ___

[issue10799] Improve webbrowser (.open) doc and behavior

2013-03-28 Thread Georg Brandl
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[issue10799] Improve webbrowser (.open) doc and behavior

2013-02-26 Thread Ezio Melotti
Ezio Melotti added the comment: On WinXP, if I try "firefox bugs.python.org", I get an error because it can not find firefox in the PATH. This is probably what happens with _isexecutable("firefox"). However if I try "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\>firefox.exe bugs.python.org", Firefox corr

[issue10799] Improve webbrowser (.open) doc and behavior

2013-02-24 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I no longer think we should touch the url; just pass it to each browser in turn, as needed, and let the user get the result. -- versions: +Python 3.3, Python 3.4 -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker

[issue10799] Improve webbrowser (.open) doc and behavior

2013-02-24 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Before closing #8936, I realized that perhaps my user default browser *is* being called but is returning an error code. It does not really matter, where the error code comes from. I think 'using the default browser' should be expanded to ''using the first defa

[issue10799] Improve webbrowser (.open) doc and behavior

2011-08-13 Thread Ezio Melotti
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[issue10799] Improve webbrowser (.open) doc and behavior

2011-06-03 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Upon further experimentation, I realize that I can only open in Firefox because I have it set as my default browser. It would otherwise be inaccessible because it is not in the _browser registry. It also appears that I cannot intentionally use Internet Explor