[Tutor] Re: Webbrowser

[Andrei]

Danny Yoo wrote:
> 
> Hmmm... the webbrowser module does the following checks on a Unix
> environment:
> 
<snip>
> 
> According to the code above, it should have been able to find KDE's
> Konqueror browser fine, as long as:
> 
>     1.  os.environ.get('DISPLAY') is some kind of true value, and
>     2.  kfm or konqueror can be found by the system.
> 
> So you may want to check those first.

I'll look at those when I boot in Linux. The annoying bit is that in a 
standard installation of a popular, modern distro (Mandrake), the Python 
module doesn't work out of the box. Konqueror is of course present, as 
well as Mozilla and the Gnome browser (name escapes me atm).

  >>On a sidenote: is there any support for browsers which have tabs (as in:
>>open in a new tab)?
> 
> 
> Good question!  I'm not sure how to do this platform-independently yet,
> but Mozilla does support it:
> 
>     http://www.mozilla.org/docs/command-line-args.html
> 
> through the 'new-tab' option.  To get this to work, we'd probably have to
> modify the 'Netscape' handler within webbrowser.py.  Here's one way we
> might be able to do it:
> 
<snip code>
> 
> This modification augments the 'new' keyword parameter so that it can take
> in 'tab', in which case it'll try to open using the 'new-tab' option:
> 
> ###
> import webbrowser_modified
> webbrowser_modified.open('http://python.org', new='tab')
> ###
> 
> 
> Can't test this on my end, since I'm running on Safari.  Can someone check
> to see if this works?  If this were polished up, it might make a nice
> submission to Sourceforge... *grin*
> 

Thanks, I'll test that too.

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Scot W. Stevenson wrote:
 >
 > I used the browser module exactly once, and I started it off with
 >
 > try:
 > 	self.mybrowser = webbrowser.get()
 > except TypeError:
 > 	[Say you can't find the browser]
 >
 > I'm not sure if you did something like that before the part of the 
code that
 > you mentioned. The docs say you can "register" a browser; if all else 
fails,
 > maybe that would be the way to go.

Yes, I use that method elsewhere in my code and use a different display 
method (plain text in a message window instead of HTML). However, in 
this case I don't want that. I *must* have the browser.


Andrei



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