On Jan 12, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Alex Martelli wrote:
On Jan 12, 2004, at 8:45 PM, Brendan O'Connor wrote:
I was trying to use the webbrowser module with OS X's preinstalled python; I'm not very familiar with OS X, but I just patched webbrowser.py to use the very generic "open" command, which works for the simple webbrowser.open(url).
I've heard that Fink or another port would be more complete; on the other hand, I'm using computers where I can't install software myself, so this is useful for me.
Any thoughts or issues?
As a brand-new user of Mac OS X, "open" appears to be the right solution to me, picking up whatever settings one may have made for a different browser than Safari, not requiring fink, etc, etc. However, we should probably double-check on pythonmac-sig, where the REAL Mac Pythonistas hang out...
I don't think that this patch is necessary.. On my Mac OS X 10.3 machine (comes with Python 2.3.0), webbrowser.py uses Internet Config to launch the url (the 'ic' module). This is basically equivalent to the open command. It works like this: * Internet Config is an old MacOS API that's mapped to Launch Services which launches the URL with your preferred browser * open is a command line utility that uses the NSWorkspace Cocoa API which uses Launch Services to launch the URL with your preferred browser I don't think your patch fixes anything, it's launched by Launch Services either way.. at least on OS X 10.3. A patch doesn't do us any good against Python 2.2.0 on Mac OS 10.2 if its behavior is broken. Apple doesn't update Python between major releases. You should be able to install MacPython 2.3 in your home directory. Don't bother with Fink. -bob