How do I invoke IE browser from Python on Mac OS X?

[Brian Victor]

Paul Jackson wrote:
> 
> How do I invoke Internet Explorer (or other package)
> from Python (or from a shell prompt for that matter)
> on Mac OS X.  It seems that IE and other major apps
> on OS X are not single executable files, but a directory
> subtree called a package or bundle, as described for
> example at:

Don't know about Python directly, but open -a /path/to/app should work
from a shell.  If you want to open it with a URL, though, that might not
be sufficient.

-- 
Brian