(python-dev is not the best place for this. If you want to submit a proposed patch, please use the SourceForge bug tracker. For more "how do I do this" sorts of stuff, please use comp.lang.python (aka python-list@python.org). Your post sort of straddles both domains.) Brendan> I was trying to use the webbrowser module with OS X's Brendan> preinstalled python; I'm not very familiar with OS X, but I Brendan> just patched webbrowser.py to use the very generic "open" Brendan> command, which works for the simple webbrowser.open(url). ... Brendan> Any thoughts or issues? All you need to do to get this to work is set your BROWSER environment variable to "open": % env | grep BROWSER BROWSER=open No source mods necessary. Skip