Controlling the Opera browser under UNIX

[Martin Franklin]

Jaroslav Gergic wrote:

> The webbrowser module in the Python 2.1 does not
> support the Opera browser directly.
> 


 I think I posted this a few months ago.......  here it is again.

from webbrowser import *
 
class Opera:
    def _remote(self, action):
        cmd = "opera -remote '%s' >/dev/null 2>&1 &" % (action)
        rc = os.system(cmd)
        if rc:
            import time
            os.system("opera &")
            time.sleep(PROCESS_CREATION_DELAY)
            rc = os.system(cmd)
        return not rc
 
    def open(self, url, new=0):
        if new:
            self.open_new(url)
        else:
            self._remote("openURL(%s)" % url)
 
    def open_new(self, url):
        self._remote("openURL(%s, new-window)" % url)
 
register("opera", Opera)