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

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> (SM) writes:

Paul> How do I invoke Internet Explorer (or other package) from Python
Paul> (or from a shell prompt for that matter) on Mac OS X.  

SM> Having just learned this recently myself, I figure passing it along would be
SM> worthwhile... ;-) MacOSX has an open(1) command which it inherited from
SM> NeXT.  To open the Python home page using the default web browser, execute:

SM>     open http://www.python.org/

That won't work:
 No such file: /Users/piet/http:/www.python.org

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