[Python-Dev] urllib.browse() issues

[Moshe Zadka]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> "Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> > 
> > Having finally wrestled CVS into at least temporary submission,
> > I'm in the process of generating a patch to add a browser-launcher
> > function to the standard library.  There are a couple of issues
> > connected to this.
> 
> Eric, please have a look at Tools/idle/BrowserControl.py...
> it has all you need and can easily be extended to support
> more browsers.
> 
> Might be a good candidate for the std lib if you ask me --
> after a rename to say "browser.py".

It can easily be transformed into the standard library for free: just
declare IDLE a standard library package. 

Even better would be to divorce all those parts of IDLE which are Tkinter
independent and put those in a seperate package, whose name is TBD.

--
Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>
There is no GOD but Python, and HTTP is its prophet.