Clickable hyperlinks

[Deborah Swanson]

Devin Jeanpierre wrote, on January 03, 2017 12:57 PM

>Sadly, no. :(  Consoles (and stdout) are just text, not hypertext. The
way to 
>make an URL clickable is to use a terminal that makes URLs clickable,
and  
>print the URL:
>
>
>print("%s: %s" % (description, url))
>
>
>
>
>-- Devin

I'm sorry, I should have said a GUI console because I wouldn't expect a
text-based console to produce clickable links. But it appears that a
simple GUI console can't do it either. I have 3 GUI consoles and in all
3, when I ask:

print("%s: %s" % ("python.org list",
"https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list"))

I get:
python.org list: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

(Outlook made the url clickable here, the python GUI consoles just
output plain text.)

Pretty clearly the output is plain text because your format parameters
are %s. Maybe the trick, if there is one, is in a format parameter for
urls.



On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Deborah Swanson
<python at deborahswanson.net> wrote:

Excel has a formula:

=HYPERLINK(url,description)

that will put a clickable link into a cell.

Does python have an equivalent function? Probably the most common use
for it would be output to the console, similar to a print statement, but
clickable.

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