[Tutor] Any easy way to invoke the default browser on a specified URL?

[Roel Schroeven]

Kent Johnson wrote:

> Terry Carroll wrote:
> 
>>Is there any way, from within Python, to cause the default browser 
>>(Firefox, in my case) to be invoked with a specific URL?
>>
>>I'd like to do something like (totally made-up name and syntax):
>>
>>OpenBrowser("http://www.google.com/")
>>
>>and have a new browser window opened up pointing to Google.
> 
> 
>   >>> import webbrowser
>   >>> webbrowser.open("http://www.google.com/")

Splendid! I've been looking for something like that too, but somehow 
that module escaped my attention. Thanks!

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Roel Schroeven