[issue3330] webbrowser module doesn't correctly handle '|' character.

Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Closing as invalid. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

[issue3330] webbrowser module doesn't correctly handle '|' character.

Matt Giuca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I was able to duplicate this, but it's an issue with Firefox, not Python. webbrowser.open(url) just passes url as a command line argument to the web browser; it doesn't do any manipulation. Note that you get the exact same behaviour if you run Fi

[issue3330] webbrowser module doesn't correctly handle '|' character.

Adrian Petrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Just as an aside, the reason I consider this a fairly serious bug is that the Google Charts API urls make heavy use of the '|' character, which means if I want to have Python use it by opening the user's browser, it won't work if they don't a

[issue3330] webbrowser module doesn't correctly handle '|' character.

New submission from Adrian Petrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The webbrowser module seems to treat URLs containing the "|" character differently based on whether the browser is already running or not. For instance, consider the following python script: import webbrowser url = "http://foo.com/bar.htm