Launching web browser programmatically

[Ben Darnell]

[I seem to remember a recent thread about this, but I can't find it on
DejaNews.  I apologize for any redundancy]

How do I launch the the user's web browser programmatically on Win9x?  I
can use "start http://www.python.org" at the command line, but
"os.system('start http://www.python.org')" doesn't work properly.  The
python process seems to hang.  When I kill python with the task manager,
the web browser does appear.  What is going wrong here?

Ben Darnell
ben_darnell at hotmail.com