[New-bugs-announce] [issue2835] Py30a5: webbrowser.open() inf recursion

[Mark Summerfield]

New submission from Mark Summerfield <mark at qtrac.eu>:

There appears to be an infinite recursion in Py30a5 (doing the same
thing in Py2.5.1 works fine):

Python 3.0a5 (r30a5:62856, May  9 2008, 11:23:06) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)] on linux2
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IDLE 3.0a5
>>> import webbrowser
>>> url = "http://www.python.org"
>>> webbrowser.open(url)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#9>", line 1, in <module>
    webbrowser.open(url)
  File "/home/mark/opt/python30a5/lib/python3.0/webbrowser.py", line 61,
in open
    if browser.open(url, new, autoraise):
  File "/home/mark/opt/python30a5/lib/python3.0/webbrowser.py", line
350, in open
    devnull = open(os.devnull, "r+")
  File "/home/mark/opt/python30a5/lib/python3.0/webbrowser.py", line 61,
in open
    if browser.open(url, new, autoraise):
  File "/home/mark/opt/python30a5/lib/python3.0/webbrowser.py", line
350, in open
...
    devnull = open(os.devnull, "r+")
  File "/home/mark/opt/python30a5/lib/python3.0/webbrowser.py", line 61,
in open
    if browser.open(url, new, autoraise):

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 66716
nosy: mark
severity: normal
status: open
title: Py30a5: webbrowser.open() inf recursion
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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