[Tutor] Selecting a browser

[Ricardo Aráoz]

Kent Johnson wrote:
> Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
>>>>> import webbrowser
>>>>> ff = webbrowser.get("S:\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe %s &")
>>>>> ff.open('http://www.google.com')
>> False
> 
> Beware of backslashes in file paths - backslash introduces a character 
> escape in Python strings. You can fix by any of
> - use \\ instead of \
> - use / instead of \ (it works fine)
> - use raw strings (prefix with r) e.g. 
> r"S:\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe %s &"
> 

Thanks Kent, that was certainly the problem. So I went through it just
to hit another wall, when issuing the open method :

>>> ff.open('http://www.google.com')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "E:\Python25\lib\webbrowser.py", line 168, in open
    p = subprocess.Popen(cmdline, close_fds=True)
  File "E:\Python25\lib\subprocess.py", line 551, in __init__
    raise ValueError("close_fds is not supported on Windows "
ValueError: close_fds is not supported on Windows platforms

No easy way, I'll have to check the module's code. Or go Marty's way
(that's popen).

Thanks