attaching someconfusing results in webbrowser.open on gnulinux

[J. Cliff Dyer]

krishnakant Mane wrote:
> hello all,
> I had mentioned previously that I can't open html files in python.
> I have my username as krishna and there is a documents folder.
> so when I give webbrowser.open("file:///home/krishna/documents/tut.html")
> on python prompt I get true as return value but web browser (firefox )
> opens with page not found.
> and the address bar shows the following address which indeed is wrong.
> file:///home/krishna/"file:///home/krishna/documents/tut.html"
> I can't understand what is happening.
> regards,
> Krishnakant.
>   

I haven't used the module, but it looks like webbrowser.open() is
treating your URL as a relative pathname instead.  So it takes the
current working directory (/home/krishna/), and appends the relative
path you gave it (file:///home/krishna/documents/tut.html).  Instead,
try calling:

webbrowser.open("documents/tut.html")

If that works, also try

webbrowser.open("/home/krishna/documents/tut.html")

I suspect both of those will work.  There must be some other syntax for
opening URLs directly. Or maybe it interoperates with urllib.

Cheers,
Cliff