[New-bugs-announce] [issue30451] parse windows path error in webbrowser.get() and lead to webbrowser.Error: could not locate runnable browser

[chainly]

New submission from chainly:

a bug when platform is not posix, lead to
webbrowser.Error: could not locate runnable browser
see below:
import shlex
shlex.split(r'C:\a\chrome.exe', comments=False, posix=True)
['C:achrome.exe']
shlex.split(r'C:\a\chrome.exe', comments=False, posix=False)
['C:\a\chrome.exe']

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 294325
nosy: chainly
priority: normal
pull_requests: 1865
severity: normal
status: open
title: parse windows path error in webbrowser.get() and lead to webbrowser.Error: could not locate runnable browser

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