Determining an operating system's default browser

[Larry Bates]

You don't have to determine it.  Just os.startfile('page1.html')
and let the OS figure it out.

-Larry Bates


John McMonagle wrote:
> Is there a python module which can determine an operating system's
> default web browser application.
> 
> I would like to use it in the following context:  I have a GUI
> application where all the documentation is written as html pages.  I
> wish to have these html help pages open in the default browser when
> selected from the application's Help menu
> 
> If python can determine the path to the default browser, I can then just
> spawn it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John McMonagle
> 
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