How to execute a hyperlink?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <8UVfl.45$n_6.33 at newsfe22.ams2>,
Roel Schroeven  <rschroev_nospam_ml at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>Muddy Coder schreef:
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> Module os provides a means of running shell commands, such as:
>> 
>> import os
>> os.system('dir .')
>> 
>> will execute command dir
>> 
>> I think a hyperlink should also be executed. I tried:
>> 
>> os.system('http://somedomain.com/foo.cgi?name=foo&passwd=bar')
>> 
>> but I got kicked out by the Python interpreter. I wonder somebody
>> knows the syntax of triggering a hyperlink? Thanks in advance!
>
>As others have said, you can use the webbrowser module for hyperlinks.
>Alternatively you can use os.startfile() which works hyperlinks and many
>types of files, but only works on Windows (it does the same as
>double-clicking in Windows Explorer).
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I suspect that os.startfile() will indeed give Muddy Coder
the most immediate satisfaction.  It might interest him,
though, also to experiment with 

  os.system("start %s" % URL)

Again, recognize this only gives happy results, in general,
under Win*.