open default web browser using python

[Mickel Grönroos]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Gregor Leban wrote:

> When clicking on one of the menu
> items, we would like to open the default web browser for that platform with
> a specific html page. Is there any python function that can do that?

Look at the webbrowser module:

import webbrowser
webbrowser.open("http://www.google.com/")

Cheers,

/Mickel G.

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